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MEMORIAL  MEETING 

ISRAEL  FRIEDLAENDER 
BERNARD    CANTOR 

Whose  Hoes  were  sacrificed  July  5,  I920jn 

the  cause  cf  Israel  and  in  the 

service  of  humanity 


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CARNEGIE  HALL  *  NEW  YORK  CITY 
Thursday  Evening.  September  9.I92Q 


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Israel  Friedlaender-Bernard  Cantor 
Memorial  Committee 

OF  THE 

Joint  Distribution  Committee 


Cyrus  Adler,  Chairman  Judah  L.  Macnes 

Sholem  Asch  Otto  A.  Rosalsky 

Samuel  C.  Lamport  Felix  M.  Warburg 

Stanley    Bero,  Secretary 


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Professor  Israel  Friedlaender 
Rabbi  Bernard  Cantor 


Memorial  Meeting 


Under  the  auspices  of  the  Joint  Distribution  Committee 

of  the  American  Funds  for  Jewish  War  Sufferers 

and  its  Constituent  Committees,  the  American, 

Central,  and  People's  Relief  Committees, 

with  the  following  organizations 

participating : 

American  Academy  of  Jewish  Research 

American  Jewish  Committee 

American  Oriental  Society 

Bais-Lechem,  Warsaw 

Bureau  of  Education 

Congregation  Rodef  Sholem,  Wabash,  Ind. 

Central  Conference  of  American  Rabbis 

Educational  Alliance 

Federation  of  Galician  Jews 

Federation  of  Polish  Jews  in  America 

Federation  of  Roumanian  Jews  of  America 

Federation  of  Ukrainian  Jews  of  America 

Free  Synagogue  of  Flushing 

Hebrew  Union  College 

Hebrew  Veterans  of  the  Wars  of  the  Republic 

Henry  Street  Settlement 


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HlSTADRUTH  IBRITH 

Independent  Order  Brith  Abraham 

Independent  Order  Free  Sons  op  Israel 

Intercollegiate  Menorah  Society 

Intercollegiate  Zionist  Association 

Invincible  Judaens 

Jewish  Center 

Jewish  Emigrant    Aid    Office    of    Constantinople, 

Turkey 
Jewish  Public  Committee  of  Russia  for  the  Aid  of 

Pogrom  Victims,  Moscow,  Russia 
Jewish  Publication  Society  of  America 
Jewish  Reform  Temple  of  Lafayette,  Ind. 
Jewish  Reform  Temple  of  Port  Gibson,  Miss. 
Jewish  Theological  Seminary  of  America 
Jewish  Young  Men  's  Association,  Buffalo,  New  York 
Seventeen  Jewish  Organizations  of  Warsaw,  Poland 
League  of  the  Jewish  Youth  of  America 
Legal  Aid  Bureau  of  Wichita,  Kansas 
Mizrachi  Organization 
Order  of  Brith  Abraham 
Order  Sons  of  Zion 
Oriental  Club  of  New  York 
J.  L.  Perez  Writers'  Association 
Rabbinical  Assembly  of  Jewish  Theological  Seminary 
Society  of  Biblical  Literature  and  Exegesis 
Student  Body  of  Jewish  Theological  Seminary  of 

America 
Teachers'  Institute,  Jewish  Theological  Seminary 

of  America 
Temple  Emanuel,  Wichita,  Kansas 
Union  of  Orthodox  Congregations  of  America 
United  Synagogue  of  America 
University  of  Cincinnati 
West  Side  Community  House 
Young  Israel 
Young  Judaens 
Zionist  Organization  of  America 


Israel  Friedlaender 


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Professor  Israel  Friedlaender 


Born  September  8,  1876,  at  Kovel,  Russian  Poland, 
the  son  of  Pinkus  Friedlaender  and  Gitel  Ehrlich. 

Married  September  26,  1905,  Lillian  Ruth  Bent- 
wich,  of  London,  England. 

Three  sons:  Herzl,  Benzion,  and  Daniel  Balfour. 

Three  daughters:    Carmel,  Judith-Susannath,  and 
Nechomo  Joy. 


Education  : 

Heder  and  privately  at  Warsaw;  attended  Berlin 
University  and  the  Rabbiner  Seminar  from  1896- 
1900. 

Received  the  Ph.D.  degree  from  the  University  of 
Strassburg  in  1901. 

Academic  Positions: 

Privat-docent  in  Semitic  Languages  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Strassburg,  1902-1903 ;  came  to  Jewish  The- 
ological Seminary  of  America  as  Sabato  Morais 
Professor  of  Biblical  Literature  and  Exegesis  in 
October,  1903,  where* he  remained  until  his  death; 
was  also  Instructor  in  History  at  the  Teachers* 
Institute  of  the  Jewish  Theological  Seminary. 


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In  Memoriam 

Author,  Editor,  and  Translator  of  the  Following: 

Der  Sprachgebrauch  des  Maimonides  (1902). 
Die  Messiasidee  im  Islam  (1903). 

The  Arabic  Original  of  the  Report  of  R.  Nathan 

Hababli  (1905). 

Translated  from  Russian  into  German,  S.  M.  Dub- 

now's  "Die  Grundlagen  des  National  Judentums" 

(1905). 

Dubnow's  Theory  of  Jewish  Nationalism  (1905). 
Moses  Maimonides  (1905). 

Translated  from  Hebrew  into  German  Asher 
Ginzberg's  "Am  Scheidewege.  Ausgewaehlte  Es- 
says" (1905). 

Die  Arabische  Sprache  des  Maimonides  (1908). 
Der  Stil  des  Maimonides  (1908). 

The  Heterodoxies  of  the  Shiites  according  to  Ibn 
Hazm  (1909). 

The  Problem  of  Judaism  in  America  (1909). 

Selections  from  the  Arabic  Writings  of  Maimoni- 
des edited  with  Introduction  and  Notes  (1909). 

Were  our  Ancestors  Capable  of  Self-Government? 
(1909). 

Abdalah  b.  Saba,  der  Bergruender  der  Shi'ah,  und 
sein  juedischer  Ursprung  (1910). 

The  Political  Ideal  of  the  Prophets  (1910). 

Jewish-Arabic  Studies  (1910-1913). 

Muhammedanische      Geschichtskonstruktionen 
(1912). 

Die  Chadirlegende  und  der  Alexanderroman 
(1913). 


Israel  FrieMaender-Bernard  (?antor 

The  Problem  of  Jewish  Education  in  America,  and 
the  Bureau  of  Education  of  the  Jewish  Commu- 
nity of  New  York  City  (1913). 

A  New  Responsum  of  Maimonides  concerning  the 
Repetition  of  Shmoneh  Esreh  (1914). 

The  Rupture  between  Alexander  Jannai  and  the 
Pharisees   (1914) 

The  Jews  of  Russia  and  Poland.  A  Bird's-Eye 
View  of  their  History  and  Culture  (1915). 

The  Present  Crisis  in  American  Jewry  (1915). 

The  Present  Position  and  the  Original  Form  of  the 

Prophecy  of  Eternal  Peace  in  Isaiah  2:1-5  and 

Micah  4:1-5  (1916). 

Translated    from   the     Russian     manuscript    and 

edited  S.  M.  Dubnow's  "History  of  the  Jews  in 

Russia  and  Poland  from  the  earliest  times  until 

the  present  day"    (1916-1920). 

Past  and  Present.    A  Collection  of  Jewish  Essays 

(1919). 

Zionism  and  the  World  Peace  (1919). 

Zur  Geschichte  der  Chadhirlegende. 

Race  and  Religion. 

Contributed  critical  notices  of  Scientific  Books  to 
American  and  European  Reviews  and  Magazines. 

Organizations  Affiliated  With: 

Chairman  of  Board  of  Trustees  of  Bureau  of  Edu- 
cation of  Jewish  Community  of  New  York  City. 

Member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  Bureau  of 
Education  of  the  Jewish  Community  of  New  York 
City. 


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In  Memoriam 

Member  of  Joint  Distribution  Committee  of  the 
American  Funds  for  Jewish  War  Sufferers. 

Trustee  of  the  Educational  Alliance  of  New  York 
City. 

Member  of  the  Publication  Committee  of  the  Jew- 
ish Publication  Society  of  America. 

Associate  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Fed- 
eration of  American  Zionists. 

Corresponding'  Member  of  the    Indian    Research 
Club  of  Calcutta. 

Member   of    Deutsche     Morgenlandische    Gesell- 
schaft. 

Member  of  American  Oriental  Society. 

Member  of  Oriental  Club,  New  York  City. 

Member  of   American   Academy   of   Jewish   Re- 
search. 

Member  of  Histadruth  Ibrith. 

Member  of  Menorah  Society. 

Member  of  Young  Israel. 

Member  of  Intercollegiate  Zionist  Association. 


Overseas  Relief  Work: 

Commissioner  of  the  Joint  Distribution  Committee 
to  the  Ukraine ;  acted  with  Overseas  Unit  Number 
1,  in  Poland,  January,  1920. 


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Bernard  Cantor 


Dr.  Bernard  Cantor 


Born  March  30,  1892,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.;  the  son  of 
Rev.  Isaac  Cantor,  and  Rose  Rachel  Cantor  (nee 
Friedland). 


Education  : 


Public  schools  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.;  Central  High 
School,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ;  University  of  Cincinnati, 
B.A.;  graduated  June,  1913,  with  honors  (Phi 
Beta  Kappa;  Tau  Kappa  Alpha),  University  of 
Cincinnati,  1914,  M.  A.  Graduate  student  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  Summer,  1914.  Columbia  Univer- 
sity, N.  Y.  Post  Graduate  work,  1917-1919,  under 
Professor  Felix  Adler  and  Professor  Woodridge. 

Rabbinical  education,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Talmud  To- 
rah;  Mishnah  under  his  father  and  Rev.  H.  E. 
Singer,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ;  Talmud,  Posekim,  and  mod- 
ern Hebrew  under  his  brother-in-law,  Rabbi  Simon 
Glazer;  Summers,  1909-1913,  Montreal;  Hebrew 
Union  College,  1910-1916  Graduate  Rabbi. 


Educator: 


Associate  Instructor  Department  of  Philosophy, 
University  of  Cincinnati.  Instructor  at  Hebrew 
Union  College,  1915-1916. 


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In  Mentoriarn 

Rabbinical  Affiliation  : 

Officiated  during  his  senior  student  years,  while 
at  Hebrew  Union  College,  at  Port  Gibson,  Miss. 
Rabbi  of  Congregation  Rodef  Sholem,  Wabash, 
Ind.  Served  at  Lafayette,  Ind.,  and  at  Temple 
Emanuel,  Wichita,  Kansas;  Associate  Rabbi  Free 
Synagogue,  New  York  City,  1917-1920;  served 
down-town  branch  Free  Synagogue ;  Rabbi  of  Free 
Synagogue,  Flushing,  N.  Y. 

Author: 

Immanuel  of  Rome.  Philosophy  of  St.  Augustine. 
Contributed  to  Jewish  and  other  periodicals. 

Organized  : 

Legal  Aid  Bureau,  Wichita,  Kansas. 
While  at  Central  High  School  he  organized  the 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Jewish  Young  Men's  Association, 
and  served  as  its  first  president. 

In  connection  with  the  social  service  division  of 
the  Free  Synagogue,  he  organized  and  led  the 
churches  and  the  synagogues  of  the  Central  Park 
district  during  the  time  of  the  Influenza  epidemic, 
in  the  effort  to  prevent  the  spread  of  this  disease. 

Overseas  Relief  Work: 

Became  identified  with  the  Joint  Distribution  Com- 
mittee Overseas  Unit  Number  1,  for  service  in 
Poland,  January,  1920. 


Israel  FrieMaender-Bernard  (?ankor 


Chairman 


Cyrus  Adler 


Order  of  Exercises 


MlCHTAM  LE-DAVID 


Dr.  Elias  L.  Solomon 


Address 


Louis  Marshall,  Esq. 


Address 


Reverend  H.  Masliansky 


Address 


Hon.  Julian  W.  Mack 


Address 


Hon.  Abram  I.  Elkus 


Address 


Dr.  Judah  L.  Magnes 


Hazkarah      Chanted  by  the  Reverend  Josef  Rosenblatt 


Kaddish 


Introductory  Remarks  of  the  Chairman 
Dr.  CYRUS  ADLER 

HIS  meeting,  brought  together  by  the 
Joint  Distribution  Committee  of  the 
American  Funds  for  Jewish  War 
Sufferers,  with  the  co-operation  of 
numerous  organizations,  not  only  here  but  abroad, 
is  unique  in  the  annals  of  American  Jewry.  We 
have  from  time  to  time  met  to  pay  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  one  who  had  rendered  valued  service 
and  who,  in  the  course  of  nature,  had  been  called 
hence  to  his  heavenly  reward.  We  have  stood  in 
solemn  assemblages  to  mourn  our  coreligionists 
struck  down  by  mobs  or  the  victims  of  hostile 
governments,  or  to  pay  tribute  to  the  brave  youths 
who  gave  up  their  lives  serving  America  in  the 
Great  War,  but,  as  far  as  I  can  recall,  American 
Jewry  has  for  the  first  time  in  its  existence  of  more 
than  265  years,  had  the  mournful  duty  of  as- 
sembling in  memory  of  Americans  who  had  fallen 
in  the  field  as  martyrs  to  the  cause  of  the  Jewish 


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In  hicmoriam 

people.  Such  was  the  fate  of  Israel  Friedlaender 
and  Bernard  Cantor. 

These  two  men,  one  a  distinguished  scholar, 
teacher,  and  communal  leader,  the  other  an  en- 
thusiastic young  Rabbi,  were  engaged  in  an  ex- 
pedition to  carry  comfort  and  relief  to  the  people 
of  the  Ukraine  who  were  suffering  horrors  that 
defy  description.  They  had  no  considerable  funds 
with  them,  nothing  to  tempt  the  cupidity  of  the 
greedy,  and  no  hostile  purpose  to  any  man;  yet, 
not  on  a  lonely  road,  nor  on  the  highway,  but  in  a 
village,  in  the  sight,  we  are  informed,  of  many 
people,  they  were  shot  down  by  men  wearing  the 
uniform  of  the  Bolshevik  army. 

It  is  to  give  expression  to  our  horror  and  detes- 
tation of  this  crime,  to  the  sorrow  and  grief  that 
fill  our  hearts,  to  the  deep  sympathy  we  have  for 
the  families  of  the  heroic  dead,  and  to  dedicate 
ourselves  anew  to  the  cause  in  which  they  died, 
that  this  meeting  has  come  together. 

We  should  not  feel  we  are  honoring  their  mem- 
ories. It  is  not  in  our  power  to  do  so.  They  have 
hallowed  their  own  memories  and  created  imper- 
ishable names  for  themselves  by  their  willingness 
to  give  up  their  lives  in  the  noble  service  in  which 
they  were  engaged.  In  some  slight  way  we  may 
honor  our  own  selves  and  elevate  our  own  souls  by 


Israel  I^Maender^BernaTti  Cantor 

an  understanding  of  their  sacrifice,  by  doing  what 
is  in  our  power  in  order  that  their  work  should  be 
carried  on,  and  by  providing  that  the  families  of 
these  men  be  spared  want  and  privation. 

If  we  do  these  things,  we  shall,  in  a  feeble  way, 
be  paying  our  tribute  to  the  souls  of  Israel  Fried- 
laender  and  Bernard  Cantor. 


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In  Menwriam 

Rabbi  ELIAS  L.  SOLOMON 
Recited  Psalm  XVI,  Michtam  Le-David 

Keep  me,  O  God ;  for  I  have  taken  refuge  in  Thee. 

I  have  said  unto  the  Lord :  "Thou  art  my  Lord ; 

I  have  no  good  but  in  Thee" ; 

As  for  the  holy  that  are  in  the  earth, 

They  are  the  excellent  in  whom  is  all  my  delight. 

Let  the  idols  of  them  be  multiplied  that  make  suit 

unto  another ; 
Their  drink-offerings  of  blood  will  I  not  offer, 
Nor  take  their  names  upon  my  lips. 

0  Lord,  the  portion  of  mine  inheritance  and  of  my 

cup, 
Thou  maintainest  my  lot. 

The  lines  are  fallen  unto  me  in  pleasant  places ; 
Yea,  I  have  a  goodly  heritage. 

1  will  bless  the  Lord,  who  hath  given  me  counsel ; 
Yea,  in  the  night  seasons  my  reins  instruct  me. 

I  have  set  the  Lord  always  before  me ; 
Surely  He  is  at  my  right  hand,  I  shall  not  be 
moved. 


Therefore  my  heart  is  glad,  and  my  glory  re- 
joiceth; 

My  flesh  also  dwelleth  in  safety; 

For  Thou  wilt  not  abandon  my  soul  to  the  nether- 
world ; 

Neither  wilt  Thou  suffer  Thy  godly  one  to  see  the 
pit. 

Thou  makest  me  to  know  the  path  of  life ; 

In  Thy  presence  is  fulness  of  Joy ; 

In  Thy  right  hand  bliss  for  evermore. 


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t   t    :  -  t  :     /  tv 

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:  typNTJW  nt?Crr^»  '  O'OVW  ^IftN  BtyjQ 
:  W'pp  »jnp?  rt^r*!**   #  »j$r  T#$f  ;*-n#  rplJU 

:  njpj1?  [3^  H^-rpi  .  His?  tyn  ^  ng^  pf? 

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i  rrvj  sp^ro  mow 


Address  of 
LOUIS  MARSHALL,  Esq. 


Not  grief,  but  pride,  arouse  these  heroes  slain, 
New-joined  to  Israel's  endless  martyr-line; 
Their  errand,  mercy,  and  their  aim  divine 
Led  them  into  that  seething  hell,  Ukraine, 
Where  Hate  converts  God's  sunlight  into  bane, 
Where  Love  contemned  has  ceased  his  sway  benign, 
Where  Faith  and  Hope  in  bitterness  repine 
And  Night  resumes  her  interrupted  reign. 
In  throbbing  hearts  enshrined,  death  is  not  theirs, 
Not  failure  but  fruition  crowns  their  days, 
Their  precious  blood  fraternal  message  bears 
To  them,  who  from  the  darkness  heavenward  gaze, 
Of  brother  love  beyond  the  seas,  that  shares 
All  sorrows  and  the  fallen  would  upraise. 


T  the  beginning  of  this  year  Israel 
Friedlaender  and  Bernard  Cantor, 
impelled  by  an  exalted  sense  of 
duty,  volunteered  to  go  abroad,  one 
to  the  Ukraine  and  the  other  to  Poland,  for  the 
purpose  of  bringing  comfort  and  solace  to  the  un- 
fortunate Jews  of  those  countries.  They  knew 
that  their  path  was  on  every  hand  beset  with 
jeopardy.  They  thoroughly  understood  the  risks 
they  would  incur,  the  pestilence  that  stalked  at 
noonday  that  awaited  them,  and  the  anarchy  and 


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lawlessness  that  had  to  be  reckoned  with.  They 
were  warned  of  the  dangers  that  they  would  en- 
counter, of  the  inability  of  any  existing  govern- 
ment to  afford  them  protection.  Yet,  with  full  ap- 
preciation of  all  of  the  perils  that  were  pointed  out 
to  them,  and  which  they  willingly  assumed,  they 
waved  aside  every  warning,  in  order  that  they 
might  perform  what  they  looked  upon  as  the  most 
sacred  duty  that  could  be  entrusted  to  any  man  of 
our  faith — that  of  aiding  in  the  preservation  of  the 
millions  of  our  helpless  and  despairing  brethren, 
who  knew  not  what  to  do  or  where  to  turn  for 
succor,  and  of  bringing  to  them  a  message  of  sym- 
pathy from  the  Jews,  who,  under  the  blessing  of 
God,  had  found  a  home  in  the  western  world. 
Neither  of  these  men  was  experienced  in  the  ac- 
tivities of  the  business  world.  Neither  of  them  be- 
longed to  the  class  known  as  practical  men.  Both 
of  them  were  scholars  and  students.  Both  of  them 
were  idealists  and  were  familiar  only  with  spir- 
itual values.  Both  of  them  believed  that  their  use- 
fulness in  the  work  that  they  had  undertaken  was 
enhanced  by  the  very  fact  that  their  training  was 
not  that  of  a  world  at  war,  but  of  men  who  pur- 
sued peace  and  placed  their  faith  in  the  Almighty. 
Neither  of  them  would  have  been  selected  because 
of  his  physical  courage,  of  his  readiness  to  engage 


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In  Memonam 

in  conflict,  of  his  freedom  from  fear.  On  the  con- 
trary, the  natural  disposition  of  both  of  them,  their 
life-long  training  and  their  daily  contact  were  such 
as  to  lead  one  to  believe  that  they  were  not  the  men 
to  proceed  to  that  part  of  the  world  where  dan- 
ger lurked  in  every  abhorrent  shape.  Yet,  answer- 
ing their  own  call  to  duty,  following  the  prompt- 
ings of  their  consciences,  listening  solely  to  the 
cries  of  distress  and  despair  that  thundered  across 
the  vasty  deep  and  echoed  within  their  noble 
souls,  they  moved  from  one  hazard  to  another,  ex- 
posing themselves  to  injury  and  destruction,  ven- 
turing where  warriors  feared  to  tread,  visiting  hos- 
pitals and  other  centres  of  infection,  confronting 
those  stricken  with  contagion,  travelling  through 
regions  where  armies  marched  and  remarched, 
where  bandits  and  guerillas  plied  their  nefarious 
trade,  where  shot  and  shell  flew  by  day  and  by 
night,  and  safety  was  nowhere  to  be  found.  It 
would  be  a  grave  injustice  to  say  that  these  de- 
voted men  knew  not  fear.  So  to  declare  would 
belie  the  past  tenor  of  their  lives,  would  mean  that 
they  had  no  care  for  their  loved  ones  at  home  or 
for  the  work  to  which  they  had  dedicated  them- 
selves from  their  early  youth.  Theirs  was  not  the 
blind  daring  of  irresponsibility.  Theirs  was  the 
courage  which  rose  from  the  sense  of  duty — the 


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courage  of  resolution,  which  betokened  a  fixed 
will  and  settled  purpose,  a  determination  to  act, 
in  spite  of  physical  weakness,  in  the  very  face  of 
terrifying  obstacles  that  threatened  from  every 
side  but  which,  by  the  exercise  of  inflexible  voli- 
tion, were  nevertheless  ignored. 

When  these  men  embarked  upon  their  fatal 
journey,  they  were  asked  to  wait  until  conditions 
for  travel  were  more  favorable.  They  left  a  place 
of  comparative  safety,  where  they  were  under  the 
protection  of  a  military  force.  Professor  Fried- 
laender  had,  however,  been  credibly  informed  of 
threatened  pogroms.  He  firmly  believed  that,  if 
he  could  promptly  reach  General  Pilsudski,  steps 
would  be  taken  to  avert  a  catastrophe.  He  de- 
cided, at  any  cost,  to  proceed  to  headquarters. 
His  conscience  would  not  permit  him  to  wait,  in 
order  to  assure  his  own  safety.  He  thought  only 
of  the  safety  of  others,  and  disregarding  the  moni- 
tion of  caution  he,  with  Rabbi  Cantor  as  his  com- 
panion, went  to  his  death.  Two  precious  lives, 
two  careers  of  usefulness,  were  ended  by  foul  mur- 
der in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye. 

I  had  not  the  privilege  of  a  personal  ac- 
quaintance with  Rabbi  Cantor.  Others  who  knew 
him  well  will  speak  of  the  nobility  of  his  character 


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and  the  spirit  of  self-sacrifice  which  he  evinced  on 
many  occasions. 

I  had  the  privilege  of  an  intimate  acquaintance 
with  Professor  Friedlaender  during  the  seventeen 
years  of  his  residence  in  New  York.  This  acquain- 
tance ripened  into  a  friendship  that  I  shall  ever 
cherish.  His  was  a  charming  personality.  He 
was  modest  and  courteous  and  considerate  at  all 
times.  There  was  no  trace  of  vanity,  conceit  or 
self-seeking  in  anything  that  he  said  or  did  or 
wrote.  He  was  temperate  in  speech,  judicious  in 
action,  and  tolerant  of  others'  opinions.  Though 
earnest,  he  was  not  solemn.  Though  serious- 
minded,  he  had  a  fund  of  wit  and  humor  that  illu- 
mined his  intercourse.  Though  a  student  of  phi- 
lology and  of  history,  he  kept  abreast  with  modern 
thought.  Though  steeped  in  ancient  lore  and  a 
strict  observer  of  Jewish  traditions,  he  was,  never- 
theless, modern  and  scientific  in  his  methods.  His 
industry  was  extraordinary,  his  labors  stupendous. 
He  never  spared  himself.  He  knew  not  what  an 
idle  moment  was.  When  not  engaged  in  the  per- 
formance of  his  functions  as  a  member  of  the  fac- 
ulty of  the  Jewish  Theological  Seminary  and  of 
the  Teachers'  Institute,  he  devoted  himself  to  a 
study  of  the  problems  of  Jewish  education,  to  re- 
search in  Arabic  and  Hebrew  literature,  to  the 


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translation  of  the  writings  of  Ahad  Ha-' Am  and  of 
Dubnow,  and  to  the  preparation  of  essays  of  high 
literary  value  and  of  historical  works  which  will 
long  continue  to  be  studied.  His  style  was  most 
attractive  and  was  clarity  itself.  He  was  a  man  of 
rare  eloquence.  He  spoke  English  as  though  it 
were  his  native  tongue,  and  was  equally  the  mas- 
ter of  other  languages.  He  never  wrote  a  dull 
line,  and  never  failed  in  any  conference  to  make 
a  marked  contribution  to  the  elucidation  of  the 
subject  under  discussion.  He  was  a  good  listener, 
and  avoided  every  appearance  of  masterfulness. 

The  subject  of  Jewish  education  was  nearest  to 
his  heart.  From  the  time  of  its  organization  he 
was  the  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Bureau  of  Education  of  the  Jewish  Community  of 
New  York,  where  he  co-operated  untiringly  with 
his  bosom  friend,  Dr.  Benderly.  He  had  the  con- 
viction, which  became  confirmed  with  every  year, 
that  the  Jews  of  America  had  been  derelict  by  fail- 
ing to  deal  efficiently  with  the  educational  problem, 
that  this  neglect  was  chargeable  to  no  particular 
class  or  division  of  Jewry,  but  was  participated  in 
by  all,  and  that  the  responsibility  for  taking  imme- 
diate measures  to  cure  the  fault  rested  on  every 
Jew  who  believed  in  the  continuation  of  Judaism, 
its  literature,  its  history,  and  its  traditions.     His 


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public  utterances  in  favor  of  the  adoption  of  a  pol- 
icy and  a  plan  of  action  by  which  this  problem 
could  be  effectively  attacked  have  been  preserved. 
Nothing  more  appropriate  could  possibly  be  done 
to  perpetuate  the  life-work  of  this  Prince  in  Israel 
than  to  hearken  to  his  admonitions  and  to  carry 
out  in  material  form  the  ideals  that  he  sought  to 
realize.  He  was  not  a  weeping  philosopher,  and 
yet  when  he  considered  the  deplorable  failure  of 
the  great  Jewish  community  of  New  York  to  ap- 
preciate the  necessity  of  undoing  the  errors  of  the 
past  in  the  domain  of  education,  and  of  recogniz- 
ing the  imperative  obligation  of  building  for  the 
future,  on  strong  and  firm  foundations,  a  construc- 
tive educational  policy  worthy  of  the  community, 
he  was  almost  moved  to  tears. 

He  did  not  shrink  from  death  when  he  believed 
that,  by  laying  down  his  life,  he  could  help  to  pre- 
serve his  people.  Shall  we  be  unwilling  to  devote 
our  lives  to  the  preservation  for  posterity  of  our 
spiritual  treasures,  or  shall  we,  open-eyed,  permit 
them  to  be  lost  because  of  our  unreadiness  to  make 
sacrifices,  which  are  trivial  compared  with  that 
laid  by  him  upon  the  altar  of  our  faith? 

The  task  in  which  these,  our  departed  broth- 
ers, were  engaged  when  smitten  by  the  assassin's 
blow,  remains  unfinished.     The  widows  and  or- 


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phans  of  countless  victims  of  brutal  massacres  still 
remain  destitute.  Famine  and  distress  are  as 
acute  as  ever.  Typhus  threatens  such  a  holocaust 
as  modern  times  have  not  known.  Industry  has 
been  paralyzed  and  commerce  crushed.  Syna- 
gogues and  cultural  institutions  are  ruined.  We 
know  too  well  that  the  eyes  of  millions  of  our  race 
and  faith  in  their  supreme  agony  are  directed 
toward  us,  who  are  their  only  hope  and  stay. 
Measured  by  the  standards  of  a  normal  era,  Amer- 
ican Jewry  has  hitherto  been  most  generous.  But 
when  one  considers  the  large  dimensions  of  the 
cataclysm  that  has  overwhelmed  Poland  and 
Lithuania,  the  Ukraine  and  Galicia,  Austria  and 
Hungary,  we  must  confess  that  what  we  have  thus 
far  done  is  utterly  inadequate  for  the  preservation 
of  the  lives  of  the  survivors  and  the  reconstruction 
of  their  industries  and  institutions.  We  are  not 
asked  to  give  what  Israel  Friedlaender  and  Ber- 
nard Cantor  so  freely  gave — we  are  not  called 
upon  to  strip  ourselves  of  those  possessions  with 
which  we  have  been  blessed.  We  are  not  even 
asked  to  deny  ourselves  the  comforts  that  we  en- 
joy. But  in  the  name  of  everything  that  the  Jew 
has  in  the  past  held  sacred,  in  the  name  of  the  gen- 
erations of  our  pious  ancestors  who,  with  smiling 
countenances,  suffered  the  most  poignant  tortures 


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that  Judaism  might  not  perish,  in  the  name  of 
these  our  latest  martyrs,  I  conjure  you  to  resolve 
on  this  solemn  occasion  to  share  your  plenty  with 
your  brethren  in  the  charnel  house  of  Eastern 
Europe,  until  they  have  again  been  placed  upon 
their  feet  and  peace  and  hope  are  once  more 
restored. 

Professor  Friedlaender  was  a  living  exponent 
of  Judaism  to  our  fellow^citizens  of  other  faiths. 
His  was  a  consistent  life  of  piety  in  thought  and 
action.  He  exemplified  all  that  was  beautiful  in 
the  life  of  the  Jew  who  revered  the  traditions  of 
his  fathers.  He  was  imbued  with  the  spirit  of  the 
Prophets  of  Israel,  and  sought  to  bring  home  to  the 
present  generation  their  sublime  ethical  concepts. 
Their  ideals  were  pursued  in  his  daily  walk,  and 
their  precepts  guided  his  action.  In  one  of  his  fin- 
est essays  he  quoted  the  impressive  passage  from 
Jeremiah  (ix:  22,  23),  which  most  fittingly  char- 
acterizes his  own  exalted  outlook  upon  life  and 
conduct : 

Thus  saith  the  Lord: 

Let  not  the  wise  man  glory  in  his  wisdom, 
Neither  let  the  mighty  man  glory  in  his  might; 
Let  not  the  rich  man  glory  in  his  riches; 
But  let  him  that  glorieth  glory  in  this, 
That  he  understandeth  and  knoweth  Me, 
That  I  am  the  Lord  who  exercise  mercy, 
Justice,  and  righteousness,  in  the  earth; 
For  in  these  things  I  delight,  saith  the  Lord. 


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Whilst  he  was  a  Jew  of  Jews,  he  likewise  held 
in  veneration  those  fundamental  doctrines  which 
have  made  America  what  it  is — the  Temple  of 
Liberty  and  the  asylum  for  the  persecuted  peoples 
of  the  earth.  He  loved  the  land  of  his  adoption, 
and  one  of  the  last  messages  that  came  from  him 
was  that  America  was  the  hope  of  the  Jews,  and 
that  on  American  soil  the  Jews  were  enabled,  not 
only  to  enjoy  freedom,  but  also  to  develop  their 
virtues  and  their  ideals  unhindered. 

In  these  days,  when  new  enemies  have  arisen 
where  one  would  not  look  for  them,  who,  moved 
by  ignorance  and  malevolence,  secretly,  and  some- 
times openly,  disseminate  ancient  libels  clad  in 
modern  garb,  fabrications  so  puerile  as  to  be  ac- 
ceptable only  to  the  feeble-minded  or  the  crimin- 
ally malicious,  it  is  well  for  us  to  point  to  such 
exemplars  of  Jewish  character  as  the  heroic  men 
whom  we  have  met  to  commemorate.  Their  lives 
and  the  lives  of  the  millions  of  our  faith  and  race, 
for  whom  they  were  prepared  to  make  the  su- 
preme sacrifice,  supply  the  antidote  to  this  unscru- 
pulous attempt  to  poison  the  public  mind  and  to 
place  at  our  door  the  most  monstrous  accusations 
that  have  ever  been  devised,  born  of  prejudice  and 
intolerance  and  nurtured  by  shameless  criminality 
and  monumental  stupidity.     A  people  that  has 


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produced  such  men  as  Professor  Friedlaender  and 
Rabbi  Cantor  requires  no  apologists  and  can  safely 
place  its  reliance  on  truth  and  righteousness. 
Let  us  prove  ourselves  worthy  of  these  men,  en- 
dowed with  the  Maccabean  spirit,  whose  loyalty 
and  devotion  naught  could  swerve,  and  who  died, 
as  they  lived,  faithful  to  every  trust,  unselfish  and 
unafraid. 

I  know  of  no  more  appropriate  concluding 
words  than  those  found  in  the  first  English  address 
delivered  by  Professor  Friedlaender  in  Novem- 
ber, 1904. 

"History  is  not  made  by  philosophers,  but  by 
martyrs,  by  men  whose  lives  are  an  object-lesson 
of  their  doctrines.  The  Jewish  prophets  were  at 
once  thinkers  and  martyrs.  Not  only  did  they 
think  their  ideals, — they  lived  their  ideals,  because 
they  were  not  theirs,  but  God's." 


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Address  of 
Reverend  H.  MASLIANSKY 

(Translated   from   the   Hebrew) 

HERE  are  you,  Israel,  our  beloved 
brother?  Where  are  you,  Israel, 
the  martyred  of  the  people  of  Israel. 
At  all  meetings  that  took  place  in 
this  historic  Carnegie  Hall  you  were  present. 
Where  are  you  now? 

Into  the  prairies  of  Ukraine,  the  land  of  beast- 
ly murderers,  the  guillotine  of  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands of  our  brethren,  there  you  went  forth  to 
bring  salvation  to  your  people.  You  left  your 
peaceful  home,  your  devoted  wife,  and  your  sweet 
little  ones,  and  with  determination,  you  embarked 
on  your  mission  of  mercy  accompanied  by  your 
young  friend  and  fellow-hero,  Rabbi  Bernard  Can- 
tor. Alas !  upon  the  altar  of  your  noble  and  sacred 
work  you  fell. 

If  the  souls  of  the  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
our  brethren,  who  perished  during  the  last  six 
years,   shine   like   stars  in   our   darkened   skies, 


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surely,  your  names,  Friedlaender  and  Cantor,  will 
sparkle  like  the  light  of  creation  in  our  history 
forever. 

The  sun  sets  at  eventide,  the  flowers  fade  in 
autumn,  the  rivers  freeze  in  the  winter.  All  this 
is  nature's  decree.  But  how  gruesome  it  is  when 
the  sun  sets  at  noon,  the  flowers  wither  in  the 
spring,  and  the  rivers  stop  their  flow  during  the 
summer!  The  light  of  the  souls  of  our  martyrs, 
Israel  Friedlaender  and  Bernard  Cantor,  was  ex- 
tinguished in  the  prime  of  their  lives. 

Israel,  which  found  its  pride  in  Israel,  will 
from  generation  to  generation  proclaim  and  honor 
your  deeds,  and  from  father  to  son  will  be  handed 
down  the  story  of  your  noble  life;  grandmothers 
with  children  on  their  knees  will  tell  of  your 
achievements. 

Israel,  in  the  bloody  land  of  your  birth  and 
death,  on  the  knees  of  humble  yet  highly  re- 
spected parents,  you  were  raised.  You  were  one 
with  God,  with  your  people  and  your  Torah.  Even 
when  you  had  completed  your  studies  and  ac- 
quired the  titles  of  Professor  and  Doctor,  when 
foreign  languages  were  mastered  by  you,  you  still 
cherished  the  Hebrew  tongue  above  them  all, 
because  you  were  a  true  son  of  Israel. 


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Though  enlisted  in  the  service  of  general  cul- 
ture, you  aimed  primarily  to  serve  your  own  peo- 
ple. The  value  of  a  highly-prized  ring,  set  in  rare 
jewels,  consists  in  its  splendor  and  not  in  its  use- 
fulness. The  value  of  lenses,  however  elaborately 
they  may  be  ground,  depends  chiefly  upon  their 
utility.  Our  loss  in  the  death  of  Friedlaender  and 
Cantor  is  keen,  because  both  by  their  life  and 
death  they  showed  us  clearly  the  way  to  serve  our 
people. 

Israel  Friedlaender,  the  modest,  the  good,  the 
learned,  the  educator,  the  communal  worker,  the 
author,  the  speaker,  know  that  the  various  organ- 
izations to  which  you  belonged,  such  as  the  Joint 
Distribution  Committee,  the  Theological  Seminary, 
the  Teachers'  Institute,  the  Zionist  Organization, 
The  Educational  Alliance,  all  of  these  and  many 
more,  lay  at  your  bier  wreaths  of  love  and  tender- 
ness, intertwined  with  sorrow  and  watered  with 
tears.  All  of  these  wreaths  we  lay  upon  your  holy 
grave  in  the  unholy  soil  that  holds  you. 

The  Talmud  tells  us  that  when  one  of  our 
Community  dies,  the  loss  is  and  must  be  mourned 
by  all.  How  much  greater  is  our  cause  of  grief, 
when  one  who  has  belonged  to  so  many  organi- 
zations, and  was  respected  by  all,  falls  at  the 
hands  of  brutal  murderers ! 


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Happy  is  the  man  who  was  brought  up  in  the 
light  of  the  Torah,  and  who  lived  in  the  spirit  of 
Law,  and  who  brought  comfort  to  his  Maker; 
who  was  brought  up  with  a  good  name,  and  who 
departs  from  this  earth  leaving  behind  him  a  good 
name.  About  such  a  man  King  Solomon,  in  his 
wisdom,  said  mu  fOWD  DttP  21B  "A  good  name  is 
better  than  precious  oil." 

I  see  in  my  vision,  thousands  upon  thousands 
of  holy  souls  of  the  martyrs  of  the  four  thousand 
year  old  nation  gently  approaching  the  newly  ar- 
rived beautiful  souls,  Friedlaender  and  Cantor, 
who  sacrificed  themselves  for  the  glory  of  God  and 
the  love  of  man  in  springtime  of  their  lives. 

May  God,  who  comforts  those  who  mourn,  con- 
sole the  families  of  our  heroic  dead.  It  surely 
must  prove  a  solace  to  the  noble  widow  and  the 
beautiful  children  and  their  other  kin  that  they 
will  be  glorified  forever  through  the  names  of 
Friedlaender  and  Cantor. 


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Address  of 
Hon.  JULIAN  W.  MACK 

DEEM  it  a  great  privilege  to  bring  the 
tribute  of  esteem  and  affection  of 
the  Zionists  of  America  for  Ber- 
nard Cantor  and  Israel  Friedlaender. 
The  younger  man  marched  as  a  private  in  the 
ranks,  and  he  always  felt,  like  that  great  leader, 
his  associate  in  the  work  of  the  Free  Synagogue, 
that  he  at  least  could  not  do  his  work  fully  and 
completely  as  a  teacher  and  Rabbi  in  Israel  unless 
he  were  imbued  with  the  spirit  of  Zionism. 

And  Friedlaender,  from  his  earliest  youth,  was 
ever  the  lover  of  Palestine.  During  his  years  in 
Germany,  from  the  first  day  that  he  came  to 
America,  he  was  a  leader  of  Zionists  in  each  of 
these  lands.  For  over  a  decade  he  served  on  the 
Executive  Committee.  His  deep  interest  in  the 
youth  of  Israel  led  him  to  accept  the  presidency 
of  Young  Judaea  on  its  organization.     He  gave 


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freely,  fully,  generously  in  every  capacity  when- 
ever the  opportunity  offered,  of  his  time,  his 
strength,  his  scholarship,  because  of  his  deep  at- 
tachment to  the  Zionist  ideal.  And  yet  he  was 
doomed  to  one  of  the  greatest,  if  not  the  greatest 
disappointments  in  his  life.  He  looked  forward 
not  merely  to  a  visit  to  Palestine,  he  looked  for- 
ward to  the  pilgrimage  with  his  family,  to  become 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  new  land,  the  ancient 
homeland.  Almost  from  the  grave,  there  came  to 
me  a  letter  from  him,  a  week  ago,  written  in  War- 
saw, on  June  9,  just  as  he  was  setting  out  on  his 
fatal  errand.  In  this  letter  he  said :  "As  you  know, 
I  left  America  in  January  on  a  mission  to  the 
Ukraine.  We  found  our  way  blocked  because  of 
the  advance  of  the  Bolshevists.  So  we  went  by 
way  of  Warsaw.  I  went  twice  by  way  of  Copen- 
hagen. After  long  and  wearisome  waiting,  I  find 
myself  at  last  able  to  proceed  to  Kief.  I  intend  to 
leave  to-morrow.  The  task  that  confronts  me  there 
is  most  difficult  and  complicated.  It  is  obvious  that 
after  having  waited  five  months  for  this  opportu- 
nity, I  cannot  now  neglect  it.  I  can  scarcely  tell 
you  how  profoundly  disappointed  I  am  at  this  in- 
ability of  attending  this  particular  conference  (the 
Zionist  Conference  in  London)  which  is  bound  to 
be  epoch-making.  But  I  have  no  choice  in  the  mat- 


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ter,  and  I  must  follow  the  call  of  duty.  My  work 
in  Kief  will  keep  me  there  for  one  and  possibly 
for  two  months.  After  that  I  should  love  to  pay 
a  visit  to  the  Holy  Land  before  returning  to  Amer- 
ica. My  stay  in  the  centers  of  Eastern  European 
Jewry  has  deepened  my  attachment  for  Zionism 
and  my  desire  to  devote  the  little  I  have  to  its  real- 
ization. A  visit  to  the  Holy  Land  will,  probably, 
show  me  where  I  can  prove  myself  useful,  particu- 
larly along  the  lines  of  a  Jewish  Arabic  under- 
standing, the  importance  of  which  is  now  patent  to 
all  of  us."  And  it  was  to  the  promotion  of  this 
Jewish  Arabic  understanding  that  he  felt  himself 
dedicated.  A  year  ago  now,  just  a  little  over  a 
year  ago,  he  exchanged  views  with  some  of  us  who 
were  the  elected  officials  of  the  organization.  He 
explained  how  he  felt  that  he  could  be  useful  in 
bettering  the  understanding  between  the  Jew  and 
the  Arab  in  the  Holy  Land,  through  his  literary 
ability,  and  his  knowledge  of  the  history  of  Jewish 
Arabic  relations.  He  was  eager  then  to  go  forth 
to  the  Holy  Land.  But  with  his  accustomed  mod- 
est and  self-sacrificing  spirit,  he  assented  to  the 
views  that  were  expressed  to  him  that  the  time  for 
the  particular  work  for  which  he  was  best  fitted 
had  not  yet  come;  that  it  would  come  after  the 
nations  of  the  world  had  decreed  that  the  Balfour 


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declaration  shall  be  written  into  international  law. 
That  time  came  with  San  Remo.  He  lived  to  see 
it.  He  knew  that  the  day  was  approaching  when 
he  could  give  the  best  service  to  the  Jewish 
people. 

What  was  his  conception  of  Zionism?  Let  me 
read  to  you  from  that  volume  of  essays,  from 
which  Mr.  Marshall,  in  his  noble  and  eloquent  ad- 
dress, has  quoted,  that  volume  of  essays  dedicated 
to  a  fighter  in  the  Zionist  rank.  In  the  preface, 
which  of  course  is  the  conclusion,  he  says:  "The 
volume  is  based  upon  the  fundamental  conception 
of  Judaism  as  a  living  organism,  which  is  one  and 
indivisible  at  all  times  and  in  all  climes;  changing 
and  yet  unchanged ;  harking  back  to  a  great  past 
and  struggling,  in  the  midst  of  a  harassing  present, 
towards  a  glorious  future.  That  conception  views 
Israel  as  a  community  in  which  the  religious  and 
racial  element  is  inseparably  intertwined  with  one 
another,  in  which  the  universal  ideals  and  the 
national  aspirations  form  a  harmonious  combina- 
tion— a  combination  which  can  be  realized  only 
through  the  untrammeled  and  unhindered  devel- 
opment of  the  Jewish  genius  on  a  Jewish  soil." 
In  the  very  last  essay  in  that  collection,  a  collec- 
tion well  worthy  of  reading,  whether  from  the 
standpoint  of  its  Jewish  spirit,  or  from  the  stand- 


43 


Israel  Fneilaender-Eernard  (?ankor 

point  of  the  language,  in  which  that  spirit  is 
clothed  in  words,  in  the  last  of  these  essays,  he 
says:  "However,  when  we  speak  of  the  restoration 
of  Palestine  as  the  consummation  of  our  Jewish 
aspirations  we  are  not  actuated  by  narrow,  Jewish 
self-interest.  It  is  a  paradoxical  fact,  and  never- 
theless a  true  fact,  that  Palestine,  which  has  the 
strongest  appeal  to  the  specific  national  sentiments 
of  the  Jew,  is  at  the  same  time  the  most,  or  rather 
the  only,  inter-national  land  on  the  surface  of  the 
earth.  And  it  is  so,  not  because  of  its  size,  for  it 
is  one  of  the  smallest  of  countries;  not  because  of 
its  material  resources,  which  it  possesses  to  a  very 
limited  degree ;  but  because  it  is  the  fountain-head 
of  those  great  ideals  towards  which  humanity  is 
struggling  to-day,  in  the  midst  of  rivers  of  blood. 
We  Jews  love  Palestine,  not  because  it  tickles  our 
political  ambitions,  or  allures  us  with  material 
prospects,  but  because  we  fervently  hope  that 
those  great  ideals  which  were  proclaimed  in  an- 
cient Palestine  thousands  of  years  ago  may  once 
more  be  realized  in  modern  Palestine,  not  only  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Jews,  but  as  an  object-lesson  for 
the  whole  of  humanity.  'For  out  of  Zion  shall 
come  forth  the  Law,  and  the  word  of  the  Lord  out 
of  Jerusalem/  "  And  in  the  very  last  lines  of  that 
book,  and  of  that  essay,  we  read :  "Palestine  is  the 


49 


In  Mentoriant 

Land  of  Promise  not  only  to  the  Jew  but  to  the 
entire  world — the  promise  of  a  higher  and  better 
social  order." 

Upon  the  gates  of  the  Third  Jewish  Common- 
wealth will  be  inscribed  the  same  prophetic  words 
which  greeted  the  establishment  of  the  Second 
Jewish  Commonwealth : 

"Not  by  might,  nor  by  power, 
But  by  My  Spirit,  saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts." 

And  though  it  was  denied  to  him  to  go  forth  as  a 
teacher  and  a  leader  of  the  youth  in  Palestine,  his 
memory  will  be  cherished  above  all  in  Erez 
Israel;  the  name,  work,  and  example  of  Israel 
Friedlaender  will  be  an  encouragement,  as  his 
widow  writes,  "to  our  children,  whom  I  hope  to 
rear  to  carry  on  his  work  in  his  spirit,  in  the  land 
of  our  fathers." 


Address  of 
Hon.  ABRAM  I.  ELKUS 

ilT  comes  to  few  men  in  their  lives  to 
speak  words  which  savor  of  proph- 
ecy, but  that  came  to  Bernard 
Cantor,  when  there  was  a  service  of 
farewell  to  him  as  he  was  about  to  depart  on  his 
mission,  and  when  he  spoke  these  words :  "In  con- 
sonance with  our  traditions,  we  again  go  forth  to 
serve  our  suffering  people,  and  gladly  do  I  go,  and 
I  rejoice  at  the  opportunity."  And  modestly  did 
he  say :  "I  hope  and  I  pray  that  I  may  represent 
you  truly  and  worthily." 

It  was  with  these  words  that  Bernard  Cantor 
responded  to  the  address  delivered  to  him  at  the 
service  of  the  Free  Synagogue  when  he  said  good- 
bye. In  his  mind  was  the  single  thought  that  he 
was  to  serve  a  suffering  people,  and  warned 
though  he  was  that  his  services  might  lead  him 
into  peril  and   even  to   death,   he  went  gladly. 


51 


In  Memoriam 

While  suffering  from  a  severe  illness  a  short  time 
before  his  death,  he  told  the  young  woman  whom 
he  was  going  to  marry :  "If  I  should  die  it  is  noth- 
ing; if  I  am  forgotten  it  is  nothing;  if  only  the 
Jews  remember  the  cause  for  which  I  die."  That 
cause  was  not  the  advancement  of  any  individual 
or  group  of  men,  nor  was  it  the  advancement  of  an 
idea,  but  it  was  the  advancement  and  furtherance 
of  an  ideal — the  ideal  of  the  brotherhood  of  man 
and  that  those  who  suffer  should  be  relieved. 

Bernard  Cantor  was  not  only  self-maintaining 
from  his  early  days  in  college,  but  the  mainstay 
and  strength  of  his  family.  His  aged  mother  not 
only  looked  to  him  as  the  bread  winner,  but  he 
was  the  moral  support  and  sustainer  of  the  family 
life.  His  history  is  a  simple  one  of  work,  effort, 
and  success.  It  was  only  four  years  ago  that  he 
graduated  from  the  Hebrew  Union  College.  He 
then  became  a  Rabbi  of  the  Synagogue  at  Wichita, 
Kansas.  He  made  for  himself,  in  the  short  time  he 
was  there,  a  lasting  name.  He  organized  a  group 
of  small  synagogues  in  the  neighboring  towns.  So 
much  had  his  name  become  known  that  last  year 
he  went  there  to  aid  the  American  Jewish  Relief 
Committee,  and  his  influence  counted  largely  in 
the  results  that  were  obtained.  Three  years  ago 
he  came  to  the  Free  Synagogue  as  one   of  its 


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Israel  Fnectlaender-Bernard  (?antor 

Rabbis.  He  devoted  himself  whole-heartedly  and 
with  great  energy  to  the  work  which  lay  before 
him.  He  was  unweariedly  devoted  to  the  work 
among  children.  During  the  influenza  epidemic, 
he  organized  the  churches  and  synagogues  of  the 
Central  Park  West  district,  and  gathered  together 
Catholic,  Protestant,  and  Jew  in  a  united  and  serv- 
iceable effort.  When  the  call  came  for  volunteers 
to  aid  the  suffering  abroad,  he  did  not  wait  to  be 
asked  or  to  be  urged,  and,  although  burdened 
as  he  was  with  his  family  responsibilities,  he  asked 
that  he  might  be  permitted  to  go.  He  clearly 
knew  that  it  would  be  a  serious  matter  for  any  one 
to  enter  the  territory  to  which  he  was  going  under 
such  circumstances.  He  did  not  go  as  a  boy,  eager 
for  adventure,  but,  as  his  words  show,  as  one  con- 
secrated to  service.  His  courage  was  absolute 
and  beyond  question,  and  it  was  as  beautiful  as 
the  devotion  with  which  it  was  armed. 

The  work  which  such  men  as  Friedlaender 
and  Cantor  do,  the  lives  which  such  men  lead, 
and  the  deaths  which  such  men  die  do  not  go 
unheeded.  They  are  not  passed  unnoticed. 
When  they  die  they  not  only  leave  a  place  which 
is  long  empty  and  which  we  find  difficult  to  fill, 
but  their  acts,  their  deaths  serve  as  an  inspiration 


53 


In  Memoriam 

and  as  an  example  to  all  young  men  and  to  all  who 
work  with  forward-looking  minds. 

During  the  time  of  the  Great  War,  now  hap- 
pily over,  all  men  and  women  learned — perhaps 
as  never  before — to  admire  the  hero.  He  who  did 
a  brave  act,  who  led  his  fellow-men  into  battle, 
who  suffered  without  complaint,  was  admired — 
and  justly  so.  And  when  our  soldiers  returned 
from  abroad,  all  America,  by  its  acclaim,  testified 
to  the  high  devotion  which  all  felt  for  them.  But 
there  are  heroes  other  than  those  who  went  forth 
into  battle.  Side  by  side  with  the  heroes  of  the 
war  I  would  place  men  like  Friedlaender  and 
Cantor;  men  who  knowingly  took  upon  them- 
selves tasks  of  great  importance  to  their  fellows, 
without  hope  of  reward  in  case  of  success,  with 
barely  a  passing  word  of  thanks  when  all  is  done, 
and  well  done,  and  with  the  certain  knowledge 
that  what  they  did  would  lead  to  danger,  and  per- 
haps death.  Surely  such  men  fill  heroes'  graves, 
and  all  the  world  and  all  the  Jewish  people  will 
honor  and  revere  them  as  real  heroes. 

Cantor  and  Friedlaender  emphasized  the  mis- 
sion of  the  Jews  of  America.  Their  deaths  place 
that  mission  in  a  high  light.  We  were  carrying 
to  the  suffering,  the  down-trodden,  and  the  op- 
pressed Jews  in  Europe  not  only  immediate  suc- 


54 


Israel  FtuMcunier-Eernard  (?ardor 

cor  from  starvation  and  misery,  but  we  sought  to 
carry  to  them  a  greater  and  higher  message — 
that  of  the  equality  of  men,  the  equality  of  oppor- 
tunity for  men  of  whatever  faith,  and  of  whatever 
creed,  of  whatever  race.  We  are  seeking  to  carry 
to  them  the  spirit  of  America,  of  equality  within 
the  law  and  before  the  law,  of  equal  rights  under 
the  law,  to  tell  them  that  the  Jew  in  America  was 
not  an  exile,  but  one  who  lives  in  this  land  where 
there  is  no  conflict  between  his  faith  as  a  Jew  and 
his  patriotism  as  a  citizen. 

This  message  has  been  heard  and  will  endure, 
although  they  may  die.  Their  message  has  been 
heard.  And  it  will  endure,  for  though  they  have 
died,  their  eyes  have  seen  the  glory  of  the  Lord, 
and  their  souls  go  marching  on. 


55 


Address  of 
Dr.  JUDAH  L.  MAGNES 

T  is  my  privilege  to  pay  a  slight  trib- 
ute to  my  friend  Israel  Friedlaen- 
der,  and  I  hope  that  I  may  speak 
also  in  the  name  of  others  of  his 
friends  and  fellow-workers. 

When  I  try  to  realize  that  he  is  dead,  I  ask 
myself  the  vain  question  why  I  did  not  see  more  of 
him,  talk  to  him  more.  We  understood  one  an- 
other even  when  we  differed  most.  What  a  pity 
that  in  the  pursuit  of  daily  tasks  these  opportuni- 
ties for  human  friendship  are  permitted  to  pass 
unheeded.  Friends  are  so  sure,  so  near  at  hand, 
that  we  wait  at  times  until  it  is  too  late.  I  want 
to  thank  him  here  for  the  friendship  and  com- 
panionship he  showed  me,  for  comradeship  in 
many  a  struggle.  It  is  a  blessed  thing  to  have  had 
the  privilege  of  counsel  and  fellowship  with  him. 
What  a  great  good  fortune  to  have  found  a  man 
like  him,  with  his  ardor,  his  idealism,  his  learn- 


5* 


Israel  FruMaendw-Bernard  finder 

ing,  his  delicate  sensitiveness,  his  clean  mind,  his 
power  of  speech  and  of  pen,  his  readiness  to  be  of 
service. 

He  was  the  embodiment  of  the  Golus  trying  to 
free  itself.  His  life  was  a  symbol  of  the  bitter 
tragedy  and  the  eternal  hopefulness  of  the  Jewish 
people.  He  was  the  mildest,  the  tenderest,  the 
least  offensive  of  men.  Yet  he  seemed  to  be  in 
the  hands  of  an  inexorable  fate. 

His  life  was  one  of  only  partial  fulfilment.  He 
who  had  a  love  of  study,  of  learning,  came  into 
the  pioneer  Jewish  life  of  America,  where  learn- 
ing is  still  a  luxury.  He,  whose  chief  character- 
istic was  cultivation  and  aestheticism,  was  used 
as  a  shuttle  in  the  hands  of  conflicting  Jewish 
parties.  He  who  had  a  passion  for  the  Land  of 
Israel  never  set  eyes  upon  it  even  from  afar.  He, 
whose  every  interest  was  centered  in  the  soul,  the 
spiritual  life  of  his  people,  died  in  distributing 
bread  for  its  starving  body.  Yet  through  it  all, 
though  often  bemoaning  the  intricacy  and  pain  of 
his  own  destiny,  he  was  full  of  hope  for  the  re- 
demption of  his  people,  and  his  belief  grew  deeper 
with  every  day  that  through  the  Jewish  soul,  the 
Jewish  spirit,  freedom  and  healing  might  be 
brought  to  mankind. 


57 


In  Memoriam 

Strangely  enough,  the  very  restlessness  of  his 
life  grew  from  a  clear,  well-grounded  theory. 
All  of  his  activities  had  their  origin  and  their  ex- 
planation in  his  belief  in  the  unity  of  the  Jewish 
people  and  the  value  of  the  Jewish  soul.  He 
himself  was  a  child  of  Eastern  Europe,  educated 
in  Western  Europe,  and  the  activity  of  his  man- 
hood lay  in  America,  and  his  dreams  were  of 
Palestine.  But,  while  recognizing  necessary 
modifications  in  the  Jewish  life  of  every  land,  he 
was  thoroughly  convinced  of  the  essential  unity 
of  the  Jewish  people,  of  the  universality  of  the 
Jewish  tradition  and  the  Jewish  destiny.  Through 
all  differences  of  religious  belief  and  practice, 
through  all  antagonisms  of  land,  language,  and 
social  outlook,  through  all  the  contradictions  and 
paradoxes  of  Jewish  life,  he  maintained  the  old 
Jewish  truth,  that  the  Jewish  people  is  one,  and 
that  all  Jews  are,  willingly  or  no,  bound  up  with 
one  another,  and  responsible  for  one  another. 
Being  a  man  of  universal  Jewish  sympathy,  and 
with  experience  of  all  types  and  classes  of  Jews 
and  of  Jewish  life,  he  set  himself  the  teacher's 
high  task  of  being  an  interpreter  of  different 
groups  of  Jews  to  one  another.  He  had  the  chief 
virtues  of  a  great  teacher — he  was  infinitely  pa- 
tient with  even  the  most  estranged  or  insignificant 


58 


Israel  Iriedlaender-Rernard  Cantor 

among  the  Jewish  groups,  and  the  clarity  of  his 
presentation  was  matched  only  by  his  charm,  his 
good  humor,  his  felicity  of  phrase,  and  his  genu- 
ine interest  in  his  theme.  He  mediated  between 
the  older  generation  and  the  new,  through  the 
sincere  piety  of  his  life  and  his  real  modernity. 
He  mediated  between  conflicting  Jewish  parties, 
because  he  understood  all  of  them,  and  because 
he  realized  that  each  of  them  was  part  and  par- 
cel of  the  one  Jewish  People.  He  made  a  constant 
appeal  for  understanding  and  co-operation  be- 
tween Jews  of  the  East  and  West  European 
origins,  bringing  out  the  spirituality  of  Eastern 
Jews  above  all  the  sordidness  of  their  daily  lives, 
and  bringing  out  the  Jewish  heart  of  the  Western 
Jews,  through  all  their  materialism  and  indiffer- 
ence to  Judaism.  He  thought  of  himself,  too,  as 
a  builder  of  the  bridge  between  the  Golus  and 
Erez  Israel,  and  between  Jew  and  Arab  in  that 
old-new  land;  and  often  he  sought  the  occasion 
to  enunciate  the  formula :  The  Diaspora  plus  Pal- 
estine. I  often  wonder  if  he  himself  had  thought 
through  all  of  the  implications  of  this  simple  and 
profound  phrase,  and  I  account  it  as  one  of  our 
greatest  losses  that  he  was  not  spared  to  elabo- 
rate this  theme  in  many  of  its  interesting  and  im- 
portant details.     But  his  was  another  fate.     This 


59 


In  Memanam 

man,  who  drew  his  inspiration  from  the  Jewish 
past,  and  who  glorified  the  possibilities  of  the 
Jewish  future,  has  been  swept  away  in  the  catas- 
trophe of  the  Jewish  present. 

In  the  last  note  I  had  from  him,  written 
shortly  before  his  death,  he  said :  "I  returned  last 
Sunday  from  a  trip  to  Rovno  and  Novgorod- 
Volynsk.  I  am  still  haunted  by  the  sights  I  saw  in 
the  latter  city."  He  undertook  his  perilous  jour- 
ney, so  I  am  convinced,  with  the  courage  and 
kindliness  of  a  Jewish  knight,  with  the  obligation 
of  Jewish  nobility  upon  him.  He,  the  scholar, 
the  teacher,  the  idealist,  had  always  felt  and  em- 
phasized first  of  all  the  rvnmn  rm  the  tragedy 
of  Judaism,  and  now  he  determined  to  fathom  the 

DVTWfl  rm  the  tragedy  of  the  Jews.  He  sank 
into  the  bottomless  deeps  of  Jewish  agony,  and 
through  the  eyes  of  his  love  and  his  sensitiveness 
and  his  hopes  and  dreams  of  his  people,  he  saw 
the  full  extent  of  their  suffering.  But  I  venture 
to  say  that,  could  he  speak  to  us  to-day,  it  would 
be  first  of  all  not  so  much  of  the  tragedy  of  the 
Jews  as  of  the  tragedy  of  Judaism.  For  what  is 
the  Jewish  body  we  are  trying  to  save  except  it 
be  the  vessel  that  contains  the  Jewish  spirit? 
Here  again  the  essential  harmony  of  his  nature, 
his  love  of  unity,  found  expression.    Israel  and  the 


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Israel  Rtedlaender-Bernard  Cantor 

soul  of  Israel  are  one — they  are  one  as  fire  and 
flame.    Today  the  spirit  of  Israel  may  weave  dif- 
ferent forms  from  yesterday,  and  to-morrow  who 
knows  what  of  beauty,  of  truth,  of  goodness,  of 
freedom,  may  not  come  from  this  tortured  peo- 
ple?     But   always  the   Jewish   soul   is   creative 
ceaselessly,  powerfully,  and  the  long  line  of  the 
Jewish  tradition  is  material  out  of  which  may  be 
fashioned  men's  redemption.     It  was  this  heri- 
tage   of  the   creative   Jewish   spirit  that   Israel 
Friedlaender  loved  passionately,  and  all  of  his 
work  meant  just  this:  to  communicate  this  spir- 
itual tradition  and  this  hope  to  all  classes  and 
conditions  of  the  Jewish  world,  above  all  to  the 
Jewish   youth.      Jewish    education   was  his   life 
work.    He  conceived  Jewish  education  in  a  large 
sense  as  the  basis  of  the  Jewish  life,  and  he  la- 
bored without  let  or  thought   of  himself,  joyous 
with  every  opportunity  to  hand  down  the  tradi- 
tion, the  wisdom,  the  ideals  of  Judaism,  and  the 
living  aspirations   of  the   living  Jewish   people. 
In  the  Theological  Seminary,  the  Teachers'  Insti- 
tute, the  Bureau  of  Education  of  the  Kehillah,  in 
company  with  his  absent  friends,  Dr.  Benderly 


61 


In  Memoriam 

and  Henrietta  Szold,  in  the  Menorah,  among  In- 
tercollegiate Zionists,  Young  Israel,  Young  Ju- 
daea, and  from  many  pulpits  and  platforms  which 
were  always  eager  to  welcome  him  as  one  of  the 
community's  most  gifted  speakers,  he  preached 
the  Jewish  word,  the  Jewish  revival,  the  power 
and  eternity  of  the  Jewish  soul. 

Alas  that  all  too  often  he  had  to  preach  to 
deaf  ears  and  hearts  of  stone,  and  that  when  his 
spirit  became  troubled,  the  tragedy  not  so  much 
of  the  Jews,  but  of  Judaism,  would  oppress  him. 
Almost  thirteen  years  ago,  in  one  of  his  early  Eng- 
lish addresses,  he  used  words  which  we  may  now 
recall : 

"While  our  heart  is  aroused  over  the  martyrs 
that  fell  by  the  hands  of  violent  mobs,  we  witness 
with  indifference  the  disappearance  of  that  for 
which  they  became  martyrs.  And  while  we  be- 
wail the  few  leaves  that  were  plucked  of  our  trees 
by  brutal  hands,  we  calmly  observe  how  large 
sections  of  our  foliage  wither  and  fall  off,  because 
the  growing  forces  of  the  tree  are  too  weak  to 
hold  them.  ...  Of  what  avail  is  all  the  material 
prosperity  of  our  nation  when  bought  at  the  price 
of  our  spiritual  death?" 


Israel  FrUdlaender-Rernard  Gxntor 

May  it  not  be  that  the  interpretation  given 
Israel  Friedlaender's  martyrdom  by  his  wife,  who 
was  always  his  helper,  is  true :  "that  his  martyr- 
dom was  required  so  that  we  might  remember, 
together  with  the  martyr,  the  martyr's  cause"? 

May  Israel  Friedlaender's  labors,  his  tears,  his 
blood,  "become  as  the  dew  unto  Israel  and  sprout 
as  the  lily  and  strike  deep  root  as  Lebanon." 


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Letters,  Resolutions, 
and  Telegrams 


From 
FELIX  M.  WARBURG 

September  1,  1920. 

I  have  already  given  public  and  private  utter- 
ance to  the  deep  personal  loss  which  I  feel  in  the 
tragedy  of  the  deaths  of  Professor  Israel  Fried- 
laender  and  Dr.  Bernard  Cantor,  and  feel  that 
there  is  little  more  that  I  can  say  in  the  way  of 
tribute  or  appreciation,  certainly  nothing  that  can 
in  any  sense  adequately  convey  the  sense  of  be- 
reavement and  the  loss  to  the  Jewish  people  which 
their  deaths  signify. 

I  am  writing  this  letter,  mindful  of  your  meet- 
ing on  Thursday  evening,  September  9,  and  be- 
cause, unfortunately,  and  to  my  very  deep  regret, 
I  shall  be  abroad  and  shall  be  unable  to  be  with 
you.  My  thoughts,  however,  are  with  you  to- 
night, and  my  mind  is  filled  with  sorrow  and  my 
heart  with  pain,  that  such  noble  lives  should  have 
been  sacrificed,  even  though  the  cause,  that  of 


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service  to  the  Jewish  people  and  service  to  hu- 
manity, was  the  noblest  cause  in  which  they  could 
have  been  engaged. 

The  Joint  Distribution  Committee,  in  arrang- 
ing for  this  Memorial  Meeting,  in  co-operation 
with  the  other  organizations  and  societies  with 
which  Dr.  Friedlaender  and  Dr.  Cantor  were 
affiliated,  has  endeavored,  in  a  small  way,  to  ex- 
press the  sentiment  of  Jews  all  over  the  land,  who 
desire  to  give  public  expression  to  a  loss  which 
is  irremediable.  The  honor  you  do  these  two 
martyrs  to  the  cause  of  Israel  is  not  less  than  they 
deserve,  and  they  will  long  live  in  our  hearts  and 
in  our  memories,  and  their  example  will  be  an  in- 
spiration to  future  generations  yet  unborn. 


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From 
JACOB  H.   SCHIFF 

New  York,  September  7,  1920. 

Upon  my  return  here  very  recently  I  have 
found  awaiting  me  an  invitation,  issued  by  you,  to 
be  present  at  the  Memorial  Meeting  to  be  held 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Joint  Distribution  Com- 
mittee, with  the  co-operation  of  the  Seminary  and 
other  bodies,  in  memory  of  Prof.  Israel  Fried- 
laender  and  Dr.  Cantor,  who,  while  travelling  as 
Commissioners  for  the  Joint  Distribution  Com- 
mittee of  the  American  Funds  for  Jewish  War 
Sufferers,  suffered  so  tragic  a  death  in  the 
Ukraine. 

I  should  consider  it  nothing  less  than  a  privi- 
lege and  a  duty  to  be  present  at  this  Memorial 
Meeting  next  Thursday  evening,  but,  unfortu- 
nately, I  am  not  in  good  health,  and  have  been 
enjoined  by  my  physician  to  keep  away  from  all 


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excitement,  and,  particularly,  from  crowded 
meetings. 

Because  of  this,  I  must  deny  myself  the  op- 
portunity to  pay  this  tribute  of  honor  to  the  mem- 
ory of  these  two  men,  who  have  brought  the  "su- 
preme sacrifice"  in  the  endeavor  to  help  our 
greatly  suffering  brethren  in  the  Ukraine,  and 
who,  by  this,  have  implanted  themselves  in  the 
hearts  of  our  coreligionists  to  such  an  extent  that 
their  memories  will  ever  remain  honored  when  the 
history  of  these  dreadful  times  will  be  written. 

I  have  known  Prof.  Friedlaender  ever  since 
he  came  to  the  United  States,  and  always  held  him 
in  high  esteem  and  friendship  because  of  his  un- 
selfishness and  constant  endeavor  to  serve  the  best 
interests  of  our  people  wherever  such  service  was 
required. 

My  thoughts  will  be  very  thoroughly  with 
those  present  at  the  Memorial  Meeting  on  Thurs- 
day evening,  and  I  regret  more  than  I  can  say  that 
personal  conditions  prevent  me  from  being  pres- 
ent, in  lieu  of  which  I  ask  to  be  permitted  to  make 
the  above  expressions,  to  be  placed  upon  the  rec- 
ord of  the  meeting. 


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From 

THE  FACULTY  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY 
OF  CINCINNATI 

September  11,  1920. 

WHEREAS  the  Faculty  of  the  University  of 
Cincinnati  has  learned  with  sorrow  of  the  death 
in  heroic  service  to  a  great  cause  of  Rabbi  Ber- 
nard Cantor,  who  graduated  from  this  University 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1914  and 
with  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  1915,  and 
who  taught  at  his  Alma  Mater  from  1914  to  1916 
as  Assistant  in  Philosophy,  be  it  resolved  that  we, 
the  members  of  the  teaching  staff  of  the  Univer- 
sity, inscribe  upon  the  records  of  the  institution 
and  transmit  to  the  family  of  our  late  colleague 
and  alumnus  our  sense  of  loss  in  his  untimely  and 
tragic  death  and  our  appreciation  of  his  engaging 
personality  and  splendid  gifts  of  heart  and  mind. 


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From  The  Faculty  and  Board  of  Governors 
of  the  Hebrew  Union  College 

"Precious  in  the  eyes  of  the  Lord  is  the  death 
of  His  saints."  Jewish  tradition  has  taught  us  not 
to  give  the  title  of  saint  to  any  living  person ;  only 
upon  him  who  has  glorified  his  Maker  and  the 
faith  of  Israel  by  a  martyr's  death  is  the  crown  of 
saintship  bestowed.  Alas!  among  the  thousands 
that  have  of  late  suffered  martyrdom  at  the  hands 
of  the  relentless  foe  in  darkest  Russia,  two  per- 
sonages dear  to  American  Jewry  will  ever  shine 
forth  in  perennial  lustre  as  saintly  ones  of  the 
Most  High,  who  dedicated  their  lives  to  the  cause 
of  their  suffering  brethren  and  fell  a  prey  to  bes- 
tial assault:  Prof.  Israel  Friedlaender  and  Rabbi 
Bernard  Cantor.  With  heroic  courage  they  en- 
tered the  enemy's  land  to  rescue  the  lives  of  their 
coreligionists,  old  and  young,  from  their  cruel 
fate ;  and  we  can  but  weep  and  lament  at  the  great 
loss  sustained  by  American  Israel. 

What  Prof.  Friedlaender  was  among  the  emi- 
nent masters  of  learning,  what  a  high  position  he 
occupied  as  a  teacher  and  interpreter  of  the  Torah 
and  as  a  pattern  of  piety  and  loyalty  to  Israel's 
faith,  the  authorities  of  the  Jewish  Theological 
Seminary  of  America,  his  colleagues  who  bemoan 


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Israel  FrwMamder -Bernard  (?antor 

the  loss  of  a  greatly  revered  and  admired  co- 
worker, can  best  testify. 

In  Rabbi  Bernard  Cantor  the  Hebrew  Union 
College  mourns  a  graduate  of  great  promise  and 
high  ideals,  recognized  by  his  teachers  for  his 
zeal  and  love  for  knowledge,  both  secular  and  re- 
ligious, and  endeared  to  his  fellow-students  by  his 
traits  of  friendliness  and  kindness.  As  a  preacher 
at  the  College  Chapel  he  displayed  wisdom  and 
fervor,  giving  especial  proof  of  his  divine  calling. 
Tradition  among  the  students  has  it  that  he  once 
waxed  specially  eloquent  when  he  spoke  from  the 
text:  "By  those  who  are  nigh  unto  Me  I  shall  be 
sanctified,  and  before  the  whole  people  I  shall  be 
honored" — as  if  his  soul  had  cried  forth  the 
words :  "The  nearness  of  God  is  to  be  my  highest 
good."  Though  young  in  years,  his  pulpit  and  con- 
gregational work  was  truly  successful.  But  the 
task  of  coming  to  the  relief  of  suffering  humanity 
appealed  especially  to  his  heart.  Prominent  as  a 
speaker  in  the  campaign  of  the  American  Jewish 
Relief  Committee,  he  developed,  according  to  the 
testimony  of  Dr.  Boris  Bogen  and  of  the  Jewish 
authorities  of  Lemberg,  into  one  of  the  most  bril- 
liant relief  workers  in  Poland. 

To  the  question,  "What  shall  a  man  do  to  defy 
death  and  live  forever?"  the  sage  replied:     "He 


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should  sacrifice  himself  in  a  great  cause."  Thus 
Bernard  Cantor  earned  a  life  perennial,  shining  as 
the  stars  forever  and  aye. 

And  to  us  who  stand  bewildered  by  this  fear- 
ful blow  so  suddenly  come  upon  us,  and  in  par- 
ticular upon  the  two  bereaved  households — upon 
a  loving  and  devoted  wife  with  her  six  children, 
upon  parents,  a  brother  and  a  fiancee,  justly 
proud  of  their  dear  one — comes  the  lesson  to  do 
all  that  lies  within  our  power  to  heal  the  wounds 
that  have  been  inflicted  and  to  carry  out  the  pur- 
poses for  which  these  sainted  ones  gave  their  lives, 
so  as  to  make  them  a  source  of  inspiration  for  all 
Jewry,  of  comfort  to  bleeding  hearts,  and  a  call 
for  justice  for  a  world  which  seems  well-nigh  to 
have  forgotten  its  God. 

ooo 

From  Professor  David  G.  Lyon,  Director  of  the 
Semitic  Museum,  Harvard  University 

I  share  with  all  present  here  the  grief  at  the 
loss  of  these  noble  and  useful  men.  With  Pro- 
fessor Friedlaender  I  had  a  slight  but  very  pleas- 
ing acquaintance.  Since  the  death  of  President 
Schechter  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mittee whose  duty    it    is    to    read    the  Menorah 


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Israel  Biedlaender-Bernard  dtnior 

essays  annually  presented  at  Harvard,  and  to  de- 
cide on  the  relative  merits.  The  carefulness, 
promptness,  and  skill  with  which  Professor  Fried- 
laender  shared  in  this  task  won  the  admiration  of 
the  other  members  of  the  Committee.  His  judg- 
ments seemed  to  us  excellent,  and  his  spirit  of 
co-operation  was  ever  a  delight. 

ooo 

From  Honorable  Simon  Wolf 

South  Poland,  Me.,  September  7,  1920. 

I  regret  that  I  cannot  be  present  at  the  Memo- 
rial Meeting.  It  is  a  fitting  tribute  to  two  noble 
American  Jews,  and  their  cruel  murder  typifies 
in  a  glorified  sense,  all  that  we  have  suffered  at 
the  hands  of  the  so-called  civilization. 

000 

Telegram  from  Professor  Henry  Preserved  Smith 
on  behalf  of  the  Society  of 
Biblical  Literature  and  Exegesis 

Although  unable  to  be  present  in  person  this 
evening  my  thoughts  will  be  with  you,  and  I  am 
sure  there  will  be  worthy  tributes  to  two  noble 
men.    My  association  with  Professor  Friedlaender 


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gave  me  the  highest  idea  of  his  ability,  scholar- 
ship, and  character.  His  death  is  a  loss  to  the 
scholarship  of  the  world,  but  he  is  enrolled  among 
the  heroes  of  Israel  and  humanity. 

ooo 

From  Paul  Baerwald,  Treasurer  of  the 
Joint  Distribution  Committee 

I  regret  very  much  that  absence  on  a  much- 
needed  vacation  makes  it  impossible  for  me  to  be 
present  at  the  Memorial  exercises  for  Professor 
Friedlaender  and  Dr.  Cantor.  I  should  have  liked 
to  be  among  the  large  number  of  friends  to  pay 
homage  to  their  memory.  We  all  know  that  their 
loss  adds  another  sad  chapter  to  the  many  sad 
chapters  of  Jewish  history.  Their  spirit  of  sac- 
rifice will  remain  a  guiding  light  in  our  work. 

ooo 

From  the  Jewish  Theological  Seminary 
of  Berlin 

Berlin  N.  24,  den  23.  Juli  1920. 

Hochverehrtes  Dozentenkollegium, 

Tieferschiittert  sprechen  wir  Ihnen  unser  Bei- 
leid  aus  zu  dem  tragischen  Tode  Ihres  Kollegen 


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Israel  Friedlaender-Bernard  (?antor 

Herrn  Professor  Israel  Friedlaender.  Seine  Be- 
deutung  als  Gelehrter  brauchen  wir  Ihnen,  die  sie 
Gelegenheit  hatten  ihn  bei  seiner  Arbeit  zu  be- 
obachten,  nicht  naher  zu  schildern.  Seien  Sie  aber 
versichert,  dass  wir  trotz  der  Entfernung  an 
seinen  Arbeiten  stets  grosses  Interesse  genommen, 
um  so  mehr,  als  wir  die  Ehre  hatten,  ihn  zu  un- 
seren  Schulern  zahlen  zu  durfen.  Mit  Ihnen 
betrauern  wir  den  Verlust  dieses  bedeutenden 
Gelehrten,  liebenswerten  Freundes  und  ausge- 
zeichneten  Menschen. 

Mit  ausgezeichneter  Hochachtung 
Rektor  und  Dozentenkollegium  des  Rabbiner- 
seminars 

V 
Dr.  J.  Wohlgemuth. 

From  the  Faculty  of  the  Jewish  Theological 
Seminary  of  America 

Israel  Friedlaender  has  met  an  untimely  death 
in  the  service  of  his  people.  A  life  full  of  great 
achievements  and  of  still  greater  hope  and  prom- 
ise has  been  cut  off  by  murderous  hands.  A  great 
scholar,  a  versatile  writer,  an  accomplished  lin- 


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guist,  and  an  inspiring  teacher,  he  devoted  all  his 
energies  to  the  cause  of  his  people.  The  whole 
House  of  Israel  has  lost  in  him  a  valiant  cham- 
pion of  her  high  ideals,  and  laments  the  death  of 
her  loyal  son.  We,  his  colleagues  of  the  Faculty 
of  the  Jewish  Theological  Seminary  of  America, 
who  have  been  his  co-workers  and  friends  for 
many  years,  know  more  than  others  his  unselfish 
devotion  to  our  Institution,  which  he  helped  so 
much  to  build  up.  He  could  have  uttered  at  the 
supreme  moment  the  words  of  Rabbi  Akiba,  the 
martyr  of  yore: 

"All  my  life  I  have  loved  Him  with  all  my 
heart  and  with  all  my  might,  and  now  I  rejoice 
to  seal  my  love  for  Him  with  my  very  life." 

•00 

From  the  Students  of  the  Jewish  Theological 
Seminary  of  America 

The  death  of  Professor  Israel  Friedlaender 
has  robbed  us  of  a  dear  teacher  and  friend.  He 
spent  his  lifetime  imparting  to  us  the  ideal  of 
Judaism,  and  in  his  death  he  set  an  example  of 
sacrifice  for  us.  Together  with  the  whole  Jewish 
people  we  grieve  for  our  martyred  leader  and 
scholar.     We  feel  most  keenly  our  personal  loss 


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Israel  FriedLender-Bernard  ffantor 

which  the  memory  of  his  intimate  relationship 
makes  more  poignant.  The  ennobling  influences 
of  his  life  are  an  inspiration  to  us  which  we  shall 
ever  cherish. 

From  the  Council  of  Jews9  College,  London 

July  20,  1920. 

The  Council  of  Jews'  College,  at  a  meeting 
held  last  Monday,  unanimously  resolved  to  convey 
to  the  Jewish  Theological  Seminary  an  expres- 
sion of  its  deep  sympathy  in  the  loss  your  institu- 
tion has  sustained  by  the  tragic  death,  while  hero- 
ically serving  the  cause  of  Jewry,  of  Professor 
Israel  Friedlaender,  a  distinguished  member  of 
your  faculty,  a  Jewish  scholar  of  world-wide  re- 
nown, and  a  friend  of  several  of  the  members  of 
the  Council  of  the  College,  as  well  as  of  many 
other  English  Jews. 

ooo 

From  the  Directors  of  the 

Jewish  Theological  Seminary  of  America 

The  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Jewish  Theolog- 
ical Seminary  of  America  recording  its  sorrow  at 


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the  great  loss  sustained  in  the  tragic  death  of  Pro- 
fessor Israel  Friedlaender  and  its  deep  apprecia- 
tion of  his  wide  scholarship  and  great  devotion  to 
the  welfare  of  the  Jewish  people,  directs  this  min- 
ute to  be  entered  upon  the  proceedings  of  its  meet- 
ing. 

In  the  decade  and  a  half  that  Professor  Fried- 
laender filled  the  Sabato  Morais  professorship  of 
Biblical  Literature  and  in  the  divers  other  offices 
that  he  performed  at  the  Seminary  he  gave  his 
great  ability  and  energy  to  the  advancement  of 
our  institution  and  to  the  promotion  of  Jewish 
learning. 

Professor  Friedlaender  died  in  the  service  of 
the  Jewish  people  and  his  memory  will  be  held  in 
honor  in  the  annals  of  Israel. 

We  respectfully  tender  to  his  wife  and  family 
our  deep  sympathy,  and  pray  that  God  may  send 
them  consolation  in  their  bereavement. 

ooo 

From  the  Faculty  of  the  Yeshibah  of 

Rabbi  Isaac  Elhanan  through  Dr.  Bernard  Revel 

In  the  name  of  the  Faculty  of  the  Yeshibah  of 
Rabbi  Isaac  Elhanan  I  express  to  you  herewith  our 
deep  sorrow  and  sympathy  in  your  great  loss  in 


Israel  FneMaenfa-Rmutrd  Gxnbr 

the  death  of  the  great  scholar,  Doctor  Israel  Fried- 
laender  of  blessed  memory,  who  fell  by  the  hands 
of  murderers  while  on  his  mission  of  mercy  to  his 
brethren. 

Our  people,  and  Jewish  scholarship,  have  sus- 
tained a  great  and  irreparable  loss  in  his  death 
and  "the  whole  House  of  Israel  bewails  the  burn- 
ing which  the  Lord  hath  kindled." 

May  the  Lord  see  the  affliction  of  his  people 
and  send  comfort  to  you  and  to  all  who  mourn 
with  you  among  the  rest  of  those  who  mourn  for 
Zion  and  Jerusalem. 

ooo 

From  the  Joint  Distribution  Committee  of  the 
American  Funds  for  Jewish  War  Sufferers 

Israel  Friedlaender  gave  up  his  life  in  the 
cause  of  humanity  and  in  the  service  of  the  Jew- 
ish people.  Throughout  the  period  of  the  war, 
which  brought  them  hardship  unequalled  by  that 
of  any  other  people,  his  voice  and  his  pen  were 
constantly  employed  in  bringing  a  knowledge  of 
their  condition  to  the  consciousness  of  the  Ameri- 
can people.  This  he  did  especially  through  his  pub- 
lished volume,  "The  Jews  of  Russia  and  Poland," 
and  by  translating  and  editing  the  great  "History 


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of  the  Jews  in  Russia  and  Poland,"  by  S.  M.  Dub- 
now.  Beside  these  larger  services,  he  was  for  a 
long  time  a  member  of  this  Committee,  serving  on 
the  sub-committee  to  draft  a  plan  for  reconstruc- 
tion work  and  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Russia,  for  which  his  special  knowledge  particu- 
larly qualified  him.  In  this  Committee  and  in  our 
general  work  he  rendered  most  important  serv- 
ices. His  heart  was  strongly  drawn  toward  the 
land  of  Israel,  and  when  the  Committee  was  asked 
to  nominate  a  representative  to  accompany  the 
Red  Cross  Commission  to  Palestine,  he  was  our 
unanimous  choice  for  the  work,  for  which  he 
gladly  offered  himself;  he  was,  unfortunately,  pre- 
vented from  going. 

Later,  when  more  definite  knowledge  of  the 
conditions  in  the  Ukraine  reached  this  country  and 
gave  rise  to  a  strong  popular  sentiment  for  mak- 
ing an  effort  to  plan  relief  work  for  these  suffer- 
ers, the  entire  subject  was  referred  to  the  Com- 
mittee of  which  he  was  Chairman,  and  in  sending 
a  report  recommending  that  a  Commission  be  sent 
to  the  Ukraine,  he  offered  himself  as  a  member 
of  the  Commission.  It  was  in  the  Ukraine,  in  the 
course  of  his  work,  that  he  met  his  tragic  death. 

Professor  Friedlaender  was  a  distinguished 
scholar,    his   range    of   knowledge    covering   the 


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entire  field  of  Jewish  learning,  but  he  was  of  par- 
ticular eminence  in  the  department  of  Bible,  His- 
tory, and  Philosophy.  To  all  these  subjects,  as 
well  as  to  Arabic  and  Mohammedan  learning,  he 
made  distinguished  contributions.  He  had  been  a 
teacher,  first  at  the  University  of  Strassburg,  and 
since  1903  at  the  Jewish  Theological  Seminary  of 
America,  practically  throughout  his  mature  life, 
and  combined  with  clearness  of  thinking  great 
facility  in  imparting  knowledge  and  a  genuine 
human  sympathy  for  his  students  which  earned 
for  him  at  once  their  admiration  and  love.  His 
interest  in  his  students  was  not  confined  to  their 
intellectual  advancement,  he  was  deeply  solicitous 
for  their  physical,  their  social,  and  their  spiritual 
welfare. 

His  devotion  to  traditional  Judaism  was  exem- 
plified in  his  own  life,  and  was  profound  and  con- 
sistent. This  devotion  and  his  labors  for  the  Jew- 
ish educational  institutions  in  the  United  States 
and  especially  in  New  York  City,  through  the 
Teachers'  Institute,  Educational  Alliance,  the 
Bureau  of  Education,  Young  Judaea,  and  numer- 
ous similar  organizations,  and  his  active  partici- 
pation were  strong  factors  in  bringing  about  some 
greatly  needed  improvements  in  the  educational 
system. 


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He  was  deeply  devoted  to  the  Zionist  Cause 
and  to  the  re-establishment  of  the  people  of  Israel 
in  the  Holy  Land,  and  both  by  his  pen  and  by  his 
personal  influence  greatly  advanced  that  move- 
ment in  America. 

He  was  a  man  of  fine  intellectual  attainments, 
broad  general  culture,  sweet,  gentle  and  forgiv- 
ing disposition,  and  by  these  qualities  he  endeared 
himself  to  an  ever-widening  circle,  not  only  in  the 
city  in  which  he  had  chosen  his  residence,  but 
throughout  the  land. 

The  fame  of  his  learning  and  the  charm  of  his 
character  were  known  to  men  in  other  countries, 
and  had  extended  far  beyond  the  confines  of 
America.  The  members  of  this  Committee,  tes- 
tifying as  they  do  to  his  distinction  and  worth, 
record  at  the  same  time  their  deep  sense  of  grief 
and  sorrow  at  the  loss  of  a  personal  friend.  His 
memory  will  ever  be  sweet  and  sacred  to  them. 

To  his  family  we  offer  our  sincere  and  heart- 
felt sympathy  and  utter  the  prayer  that  God  may 
bring  them  consolation  and  that  they  may  be 
strengthened  in  the  thought  that  the  Jewish  peo- 
ple everywhere  share  in  their  grief. 

The  Committee  places  upon  record  its  sorrow 
and  deep  sense  of  loss  in  the  tragic  death  of  Rabbi 
Bernard  Cantor.    Rabbi  Cantor,  who  was  gradu- 


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Israel  FrieMaender-Rernard  Bintor 

ated  at  the  Hebrew  Union  College,  had  been  for 
three  years  in  charge  of  the  Free  Synagogue  at 
Flushing.  He  early  revealed  himself  as  a  young 
man  of  inexhaustible  energy  and  of  splendid 
promise  of  consecration  to  the  ideal  of  service. 
During  the  influenza  epidemic  of  two  years  ago 
he  had  without  thought  of  himself,  and  at  the 
greatest  risk,  engaged  in  the  work  of  visiting  and 
nursing  the  sufferers.  When  there  was  a  call  for 
volunteers  to  be  allowed  to  go  to  Poland,  he  was 
one  of  the  first  to  petition  the  Committee  to  be 
allowed  to  go  on  this  mission.  It  was  with  the 
courage  begot  of  a  willingness  to  serve  his  people 
that  he  entered  upon  our  work  in  Poland,  and  with 
a  full  knowledge  of  the  dangers  of  his  task  this 
promising  young  life  was  cut  off. 

The  Committee  tenders  to  his  family  its  sin- 
cerest  and  deepest  sympathy  and  trust  that  they 
may  have  the  courage  to  meet  their  loss  with  the 
same  bravery  that  he  offered  his  life. 

ooo 

From  Mr,  Charles  J.  Ogden,  Corresponding 
Secretary,  American  Oriental  Society 

New  York,  Sept.  8,  1920. 

Your  letter  of  the  1st  was  not  received  until 
to-day,  and  I  hasten  to  reply,  in  order  that  this 


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may  reach  you  before  the  evening  of  the  Memorial 
Meeting.  As  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
American  Oriental  Society  has  not  had  a  meet- 
ing during  the  summer,  it  has  not  been  possible 
for  us  to  pass  a  formal  resolution  upon  the  death 
of  Dr.  Friedlaender,  but  I  may  say  what  would 
be  the  sentiment  of  all,  that  this  sudden  and  un- 
timely taking  away  while  he  was  engaged  in  an 
errand  of  mercy  has  deeply  grieved  us,  and  we 
shall  greatly  miss  the  contributions  that  he  would 
surely  have  made  to  the  scholarly  work  of  our 
Society. 

ooo 

From  Lillian  D.  Wald 

New  York  City,  Sept.  8,  1920. 

Thank  you  very  much  for  giving  me  the  priv- 
ilege of  joining  you  in  the  Memorial  Service  to 
Dr.  Cantor  and  Professor  Friedlaender.  I  shall 
be  glad  to  have  my  name  associated  with  those 
friends  of  Dr.  Cantor  and  Professor  Friedlaender, 
who  honor  their  memory  by  this  meeting.  Dr. 
Cantor  and  Professor  Friedlaender  offered  their 
lives  when  they  undertook  the  fatal  mission. 
They  had  both  demonstrated  exalted  public  spirit 
and  devotion  to  their  people,  and  though  friends 


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Israel  Fnectlaender-Eernard  flzntor 

mourn  their  martyrdom,  at  the  same  time,  they 
must  feel  some  sad  satisfaction  in  knowing  that 
in  dying  these  two  served  their  cause  as  they  had 
served  the  cause  so  dear  to  their  hearts  while 
living. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  Henry  Wdllerstein 

Wichita,  Kans.,  Aug.  21,  1920. 

Sincerely  regret  will  be  impossible  to  send 
representative  to  Memorial  Services.  Assure  you, 
however,  that  the  entire  community  of  Wichita 
will  be  with  you  in  spirit  on  that  occasion.  Dr. 
Bernard  Cantor  was  highly  esteemed  in  this  com- 
munity, and  his  tragic  death  fell  like  a  pall  upon 
the  hearts  and  minds  of  all  who  knew  him,  a  gen- 
eral feeling  of  sincere  sorrow  and  regret. 

ooo 

From  the  Intercollegiate  Menorah  Association 

New  York,  August  13,  1920. 

Professor  Friedlaender  had  been  on  our  Board 
of  Governors,  and  since  the  very  beginning  of  our 
organization  has  been  a  source  of  very  great  in- 


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In  Menwriam 

spiration  and  help.  His  untimely  death  is  a  stag- 
gering loss  to  us  as  well  as  to  the  community  as 
a  whole.  Rabbi  Cantor,  too,  was  a  helpful  friend 
to  the  Menorah  and  we  mourn  his  loss. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  Congregation  Rodef  Sholem 

Wabash,  Ind.,  August  14,  1920. 
We  are  very  proud  to  have  our  name  included 
in  your  program  for  September  9,  and  are  very 
proud  to  say  that  Mr.  Cantor  was  our  spiritual 
leader  for  several  years,  and  his  influence  in  our 
community  is  still  felt. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  B.  Z.  Ginsberg,  Chairman, 
W,  B.  Swellman,  Secretary 

Newark,  N.  J.,  Sept.  9,  1920. 
We,  representing  the  Newark  Jewry,  join  you 
in  memory  of  our  immortal  heroes,  Professor  Is- 
rael Friedlaender  and  Dr.  Bernard  Cantor.     May 
the  spirit  of  the  Kedoshim  live  forever  in  Israel. 

ooo 


Israel  FneMaender-Bernard  dzntor 

Telegram  from  Rabbi  L.  M.  Epstein,  Boston 

I  join  you  and  all  Israel  in  mourning  the  death 
of  my  master,  Dr.  Friedlaender. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  S.  J.  Rosenblatt 

Chicago,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

On  behalf  of  the  officers  and  members  of  the 
Chicago  Joint  Relief  Committee  for  Jewish  War 
Sufferers  I  join  you  in  paying  tribute  to  our  two 
noble  martyrs,  Professor  Israel  Friedlaender  and 
Doctor  Bernard  Cantor,  who  have  laid  down  their 
lives  for  the  service  of  Judaism  and  humanity. 
Tears  alone  will  not  express  our  grief  in  this  great 
loss,  but  to  resolve  to  carry  on  the  work  for  the 
cause  for  which  they  lived  and  died  should  be  the 
greatest  monument  to  their  consecrated  mem- 
ories. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  Yarmolinitzer  Relief  Society 

Brooklyn,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

Together  with  the  Jewry  the  world  over  the 
Yarmolinitzer  Relief  Society  mourns  the  loss  of 


In  Mi 


entonam 

Professor  Friedlaender  and  Dr.  Cantor,  who  have 
made  the  supreme  sacrifice  while  rendering  relief 
to  their  war  and  pogrom  ridden  brethren.  The 
two  graves  at  Yarmolihstzi  will  always  remind 
the  Jews  of  the  Ukraine  that  the  American  Jews 
are  not  forgetting  them,  and  will,  whenever  pos- 
sible, bring  them  material  and  moral  help. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  Charles  Silberman 

Des  Moines,  la.,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

Regret  I  cannot  be  present  tonight  to  pay 
homage  to  our  distinguished  martyr  who  gave  his 
life  in  the  effort  to  help  his  stricken  brethren.  Pro- 
fessor Friedlaender's  death  was  a  great  loss  to  the 
Jewish  people. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  Rabbi  Meyer  Berlin 

New  York,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

Extremely  sorry  am  prevented  from  being 
present  at  Memorial  Meeting.  Express  in  behalf 
of  Mizrachi  organization  and  myself  our  grief  at 
the  loss  of  the  martyrs  to  the  Jewish  cause,  the 


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Israel  Friedfaender-Remard  Cantor 

great  scholar  and  noble  Jew,  Dr.  Israel  Friedlaen- 
der,  and  Dr.  Cantor.  May  their  families  be  com- 
forted among  the  mourners  of  Zion. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  Rabbi  Nerzminer 

Berlin,  July  28,  1920. 
Tieferschuettert  condoliert. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  Rabbi  Leo  M.  Franklin 
President  Central  Conference 
of  American  Rabbis 

News  of  the  tragic  murder  of  Professor  Fried- 
laender  and  Dr.  Cantor  while  in  pursuit  of  their 
errand  of  mercy  deeply  shocked  my  colleagues  of 
the  Central  Conference  of  American  Rabbis. 
Through  me  they  would  voice  their  sincere  sym- 
pathy for  their  death  and  their  full  appreciation 
of  the  heroic  lives  of  these  men  whose  names  are 
now  added  to  the  long  list  of  Israel's  martyrs. 

ooo 


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In  Memanam 

Telegram  from  Prof.  G.  Deutsch,  AvonJale 

To  you  and  to  the  family  of  Professor  Fried- 
laender  I  convey  my  deepest  condolence  with  the 
loss  which  is  an  irreparable  loss  to  our  cause. 
Admiration  for  his  martyrdom  will  forever  be 
combined  with  the  sorrow  at  the  premature  end- 
ing of  his  career  full  of  brilliant  promise. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  Rabbi  C.  David  Matt 
J.  H.  Schanfeld,  President 

Minneapolis,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

Adath  Yeshurun  Synagogue,  Minneapolis, 
joins  in  mourning  Israel  Friedlaender  and  Bernard 
Cantor,  martyrs  on  their  errand  of  mercy,  but 
glory  that  Israel  has  such  sons. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  L.  Zuckerman,  Chairman 
Rabbi  Simon  Glazer,  Nathaniel  F.  Cantor 

Kansas  City,  Mo.,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

United  Greater  Kansas  Jewry  deeply  mourns 
the  tragic  death  of  our  national  martyrs,  Professor 
Israel  Friedlaender  and  Dr  Bernard  Cantor. 

ooo 


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Israel  Imdlaender-Bernanl  (?antor 

Telegram  from  Adolph  Copeland 

Chicago,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

Chicago  Branch  of  Seminary  mourns  with  you 
in  our  great  loss. 

000 

Telegram  from  Rabbi  Samuel  Benjamin 

Cleveland,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

The  members  of  the  Cleveland  Jewish  Centers 
express  their  deep  grief  in  the  terrible  loss  our 
people  have  sustained  in  the  murder  of  Professor 
Israel  Friedlaender,  and  extend  their  heartfelt 
sympathy  to  the  bereaved  family.  May  the  Al- 
mighty comfort  them  among  all  those  who  mourn 
for  Zion. 

O0O 

Telegram  from  S.  Egdall,  General  Secretary 

Boston,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

We  sincerely  join  in  mourning  the  memory  of 
comrades  Friedlaender  and  Cantor.  Independent 
Workmen's  Circle  of  America,  Inc. 

000 


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In  Memariam 

Telegram  from  Wilner  Family 

Tannersville,  N.  Y.,  Sept  9,  1920. 

Are  very  sorry  not  to  be  present  at  the  meet- 
ing to  pay  tribute  to  the  one  who  lived  and  died. 

000 

Telegram  from  Rabbi  David  Aronson 

Salt  Lake,  Utah,  Sept.  8,  1920. 
Rabbi  David  Aronson  and  Congregation  Mon- 
tefiore  of  Salt  Lake  City  share  with  all  Jewry  the 
great  grief  at  the  massacre  of  Professor  Israel 
Friedlaender  and  Doctor  Cantor.  They  died  as 
they  lived,  in  the  service  of  their  people.  Their 
blessed  memories  will  ever  be  honored  by  all 
Israel. 

000 

Telegram  from  Mrs.  Leon  Waldman 

Chicago,  Sept.  9,  1920. 

The  Women's  League  of  Chicago  mourn  with 
you  for  our  dear  Doctor  Friedlaender.  We  pre- 
sent a  yearly  scholarship  to  the  Seminary  to  per- 
petuate his  name. 

OOO 


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Israel  Friedlaender-BernaTd  Btrdor 

Telegram  from  Columbia  Local  Central 
Relief  Committee 

Columbia,  S.  C,  9-9-20. 

Beg  to  extend  heartfelt  sympathy  to  bereaved, 
and  join  in  mourning  the  loss. 

ooo 

Telegram  from  Herman  Spivak,  Chicago 

The  United  Synagogue  of  Chicago  mourn 
with  you  for  our  unfortunate  teacher.  With  God's 
help,  we  will  here  perpetuate  his  inspiring 
memory. 

OOO 

Telegram  from  Dr.  L.  Silver,  Chairman, 
People's  Relief  of  Greater  Boston 

The  People's  Relief  Committee  of  Greater 
Boston  expresses  its  sorrow  and  horror  over  the 
tragic  death  of  our  noble  relief  co-workers,  Dr. 
Israel  Friedlaender  and  Rabbi  Bernard  Cantor, 
who  sacrificed  their  worthy  lives  for  the  cause  of 
suffering  Israel.  May  the  broadcast  sympathy  of 
American  Jewry  be  a  consolation  to  the  survivors 
of  our  martyrs. 

ooo 


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In  Memoriam 

Telegram  from  Bnai  Jeshurun  Temple 
Solomon  Goldman,  Rabbi,  Cleveland 

We  join  with  you  in  mourning  the  tremendous 
loss  sustained  by  the  Jewish  people  in  the  death 
of  Israel  Friedlaender, 

ooo 

Telegram  from  New  England  Bureau  for  the 
Jewish  Relief,  Lewis  E.  Kirstein,  Chairman 
Boston 

The  Jews  of  New  England  are  one  with  you 
and  the  rest  of  American  Jewry  in  bewailing  the 
tragic  death  of  our  noble  heroes,  Professor  Israel 
Friedlaender  and  Rabbi  Bernard  Cantor.  Let  us 
redeem  their  supreme  sacrifice  and  commemorate 
their  names  by  increasing  our  efforts  for  the  cause 
in  which  they  have  died. 

ooo 

From  Julius  A.  Bewer, 

Professor  in  Union  Theological  Seminary, 

New  York 

It  is  with  deep  and  genuine  regret  that  I  find 
myself  prevented  from  attending  the  Memorial 
Meeting  for  Drs.  Friedlaender  and  Cantor,  for  I 


06 


Israel  FneMaender-RcrnaTd  fantor 

should  have  loved  to  give  expression  not  only  to 
my  own  high  regard  and  personal  affection  for 
Professor  Friedlaender,  but  also  to  represent  the 
Society  of  Biblical  Literature  and  Exegesis  which 
has  lost  in  him  an  active  and  distinguished  mem- 
ber. We  were  all  shocked  and  grieved  by  the  news 
of  his  cruel  death,  for  we  knew  that  he  was  one 
of  the  few  choice  personalities  who  had  a  great 
mission  to  perform,  not  only  in  the  world  of 
scholarship,  but  also  as  a  leader  among  his  own 
people.  His  exquisite  moral  and  spiritual  refine- 
ment combined  with  his  deep  and  luminous  learn- 
ing and  his  great  modesty  in  making  him  one  of 
the  most  winsome  men,  whose  beautiful  person- 
ality charmed  and  enriched  his  friends,  and  whose 
memory  abides  as  a  precious  benediction  with 
them. 

We  join  with  his  family  and  with  Judaism  in 
general  in  mourning  over  his  sad  end  and  in  re- 
joicing over  the  continued  blessing  of  his  gracious 
life. 

000 

From  Dr.  Solomon  Solis  Cohen 

In  to-day's  N.  Y.  "Times"  I  see  that  there  will 
be  to-morrow  night  a  Memorial  Meeting  for  Dr. 
Friedlaender. 


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In  Mcmoriam 

Were  it  possible  for  me  to  reach  New  York 
in  time  I  would  wish  to  testify  my  reverence  for 
his  memory  by  attending  the  meeting,  but  as  that 
is  not  possible,  I  am  writing  in  the  hope  that  this 
may  reach  you,  and  that  you  will  make  a  suitable 
expression  of  regret  in  my  behalf,  to  Mrs.  Fried- 
laender  or  her  representative. 

ooo 

Resolutions  Adopted  by  the 

Central  Committee 

for  the  Relief  of  Jews  Suffering  Through  the  War 

New  York,  July  15,  1920. 

The  Central  Committee  for  the  Relief  of  Jews 
Suffering  Through  the  War,  learning  with  pro- 
found sorrow  and  inexpressible  horror  of  the 
deaths  of  Professor  Israel  Friedlaender  and  Dr. 
Bernard  Cantor,  desires  to  spread  upon  its  minutes 
the  following  resolution: 

RESOLVED :  That  in  the  sad  deaths  of  our 
brave  comrades  has  occurred  one  of  the  most  ter- 
rible tragedies  since  the  Great  War.  Professor 
Friedlaender  and  Dr.  Cantor,  while  working  for 
the  cause  of  liberty  and  humanity  and  while  offer- 
ing assistance  and  aid  to  all  unfortunates  alike, 


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Israel  fnedlaender-Bernard  flzntor 

fell  into  the  hands  of  despoilers  and  murderers, 
and  by  their  untimely  death  have  shown  a  spirit 
of  heroism  and  sacrifice  that  shall  ever  make  their 
memory  sacred  and  precious. 

The  self-assumed  duty  performed  by  them 
through  their  devotion  to  our  people  in  their  holy 
mission  and  their  willingness  to  endanger  their 
lives  for  the  cause  they  held  so  dear  are  shining 
examples  of  consecration  to  the  service  of  Judaism 
and  humanity. 

Be  it  further  resolved  that  this  declaration  of 
profound  sympathy  be  extended  to  the  bereaved 
relatives  of  the  deceased  and  that  copies  thereof 
be  forwarded  to  the  Joint  Distribution  Committee 
and  to  all  the  branches  of  the  Central  Relief 
Committee. 

ooo 

From  the  Order  Brith  Abraham 

New  York,  July  15,  1920. 

On  behalf  of  the  United  States  Grand  Lodge, 
Order  Brith  Abraham,  as  well  as  myself,  I  desire 
to  express  heartfelt  condolence  to  the  families  of 
the  late  Professor  Israel  Friedlaender  and  Rabbi 
Bernard  Cantor,  both  of  whom  were  well  known 
to  me. 


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In  Memoriam 

I  can  hardly  find  words  to  voice  my  sorrow  at 
the  loss  of  these  two  great  men,  who  have  sacri- 
ficed their  lives  in  a  mission  of  humanity. 

That  Divine  Providence  may  give  the  widow 
and  children  of  the  late  Professor  Friedlaender, 
and  the  mother  of  Rabbi  Cantor,  strength  and 
fortitude  to  bear  the  sad  misfortune  which  has 
befallen  them,  is  the  earnest  prayer  of  our  mem- 
bers, as  well  as  myself. 

American  Jewry  has  lost  two  great  leaders: 
their  places  will  be  hard  to  fill. 

(Signed)     SAMUEL  DORF,  Grand  Master. 


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Joint  Distribution  Committee 

OF  THE 

American  Funds  for  Jewish  War  Sufferers 

REPRESENTING 

AMERICAN  JEWISH  RELIEF  COMMITTEE 
CENTRAL  RELIEF  COMMITTEE 
PEOPLE'S  RELIEF  COMMITTEE 


Felix  M.  Warburg,  Chairman 
Col.  Herbert  H.  Lehman, 

Vice-Chairman 
Albert  Lucas,  Secretary 


Paul  Baerwald,  Treasurer 
Wm.  Erdmann,  Associate  Treas. 
Mrs.  Harriet  B.  L.  Goldstein, 
Comptroller 


The  Joint  Distribution  Committee 


Dr.  Cyrus  Adler 

Paul  Baerwald 

Rabbi  Meyer  Berlin 

Stanley  Bero 

Jacob  Billikopf 

Dr.  Boris  D.  Bogen 

David  M.  Bressler 

David  A.  Brown 

Fulton  Brylawski 

Rabbi  Edward  H.  Calish 

Samuel  Dorf 

Judge  Abram  I.  Elkus 

Morris  Engelman 

E.  W.  Lewin  Epstein 

Wm.  Erdmann 

Harry  Fischel 

Judge  Harry  M.  Fisher 

Mortimer  Fleishhacker 

Dr.  Lee  K.  Frankel 

J.  Walter  Freiberg 

Dr.  Harry  Friedenwald 

Felix  Fuld 

Howard  S.  Gans 

Miss  Hetty  Goldman 

Dr.  Julius  Goldman 

Mrs.  Harriet  B.  L.  Goldstein 

I.    E.    GOLDWASSER 

Col.  H.  A.  Guinzburg 

Mrs.  Janet  Simmons  Harris 

A.  Held 

ISIDOR  HERSHFIELD 

Rabbi  Emil  G.  Hirsch 

Bernard  Horwich 

Louis  Isaacs 

J.  G.  Joseph 

Alexander  Kahn 

Leon  Kamaiky 

Louis  Kirstein 

Rabbi  Louis  J.  Kopald 

Rabbi  Nathan  Krass 

Albert  D.  Lasker 

Arthur  Lehman 

Col.  Herbert  H.  Lehman 


Julius  Levy 

Jacob  D.  Lit 

Hon.  Meyer  London 

Dr.  Solomon  Lowenstein 

Albert  Lucas 

Judge  Julian  W.  Mack 

Rabbi  Judah  L.  Magnes 

Rabbi  M.  Z.  Margolies 

Louis  Marshall 

Joseph  Michaels 

Hon.  Henry  Morgenthau 

Samuel  Phillipson 

Max  Pine 

Samuel  E.  Rauh 

Hon.  Otto  A.  Rosalsky 

Dr.  Frank  F.  Rosenblatt 

Henry  B.  Rosenfelt 

Julius  Rosenwald 

Morris  Rothenberg 

Abraham  Schepper 

Hon.  Leon  Sanders 

Joseph  H.  Schanfeld 

Col.  Moses  Schoenberg 

Max  Senior 

Mrs.  Abram  Simon 

Nat  Stone 

Hon.  Nathan  Straus 

Hon.  Oscar  S.  Straus 

Lewis  Strauss 

Cyrus  L.  Sulzberger 

Hon.  Mayer  Sulzberger 

Rabbi  Aaron  Teitelbaum 

Louis  Topkis 

Marion  Travis 

Col.  Isaac  M.  Ullman 

B.  C.  Vladeck 

Felix  M.  Warburg 

A.  Leo  Weil 

Col.  Harris  Weinstock 

Peter  Wiernik 

Rabbi  Stephen  S.  Wise 

A.  C.  Wurmser 

Abraham  Zucker 


